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/kˈəbərd/ Listen

noun

Cupboard n.

A board or shelf for cups and dishes. (Obs.)

A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." (Colloq.)

To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. (Colloq.) "My stomach cries cupboard."

verb

Cupboard v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. (R.)

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"Cupboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... knocked over it will certainly explode; and there cannot be a secret door without its leading into the adjoining house. (Theatres keep special kinds of architects to design their rooms.) There is indeed a little cupboard where his crockery is kept, and if Amy is careful she might be able to squeeze in there. We cannot even make the hour midnight; it is eight-thirty, quite late enough for her to be ...

— Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • J. M. Barrie

... he was expected. He rode in at the back gate, where to his secret satisfaction he found no stable-boy. So he stabled Kitty himself, and crept into his own house like a thief. Nor was it like his habits to pay, as he did, a visit to the little cupboard (where the brandy-bottle was kept) underneath the stairs, before entering the drawing-room, with his face full of guilt ...

— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... sperit.' 'How was that, do you know?' 'No, sir, I don't exactly know how 'twas with it: but by what I've 'eard he was fairly tormented; and rightly tu. Old Mr Saunders, he told a history regarding a cupboard down yurr in the New Inn. According to what he related, this young woman's sperit come out of this cupboard: but I ...

— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James

... brown leather bag which had formed Mr. Sleuth's only luggage the afternoon of his arrival was almost certainly locked up in the lower part of the drawing-room chiffonnier. Mr. Sleuth evidently always carried the key of the little corner cupboard about his person; Mrs. Bunting had also had a good hunt for that key, but, as was the case with the bag, the key disappeared, and she never saw either the ...

— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... up as sleeping apartments, and reminding one of the contrivances on board ship. The two rooms each contain a more demonstrative bed, as a rule: but in some cases the bed is shut up with panelled doors like a cupboard. ...

— Up in Ardmuirland • Michael Barrett

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