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[kuhb-erd]

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noun

a closet with shelves for dishes, cups, etc.

Chiefly British. any small closet or cabinet, as for clothes, food, or the like.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English cuppebord. See cup, board

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Yale is only one of the many teapots in the national cupboard in which these tempests are occurring.

Add in what never even makes it to the cupboard or the refrigerator, and the scale of the problem is considerably larger.

Before shopping at the market, see what's in your refrigerator and cupboard.

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Yale is only one of the many teapots in the national cupboard in which these tempests are occurring.

Add in what never even makes it to the cupboard or the refrigerator, and the scale of the problem is considerably larger.

Before shopping at the market, see what's in your refrigerator and cupboard.

In fact, you'll need to clear out a pretty big cupboard to store a water bath canner.

One attaches permanently, out of view, beneath the cupboard.

Because clean dishes remain in the washer, the table becomes an ersatz cupboard between meals.

Thirty years of privatisation have left the cupboard rather bare.

The hand slaps his forehead as if in penance, then he opens a cupboard.

Paula had several crocks of vinegar in various stages of development, as well as a cupboard filled with bottles of aging vinegar.

The dots have a self-adhesive backing for fixing to a wall, cupboard door or whatever you like.

The camera has the patience of a cat that knows it will be fed if it stares at the food cupboard long enough.

Political skeletons have been brought out of the cupboard.

They put him in a cupboard to sleep in for the past eleven years he has lived there.

Better still it could be stored under the sink, freeing up space in our ever cluttered under-stairs cupboard.

If he isn't eligible, the cupboard is far from bare.

Then he opens up a metal cupboard to reveal a picturesque row of well-used books, many of which are falling apart.

If the truth be known, he also owns a television set kept hidden in an antique cupboard.

They had remained locked in the cupboard and virtually forgotten for many years.

Look closely at a conventional tea bag in your cupboard or in the paper cup from the local deli.

He took out a heavy pistol from the holster on his belt and ostentatiously deposited it in a cupboard beside his desk.

He will sit in front of the cupboard where his food is.

But thanks to the simplest chemical magic, you can cook up a more muscular and versatile alkali from your cupboard.

Actually, however, there aren't many people without skeletons in the cupboard.

It keeps indefinitely, tightly sealed, on the cupboard shelf.

Such self-serving eyewash with more than a dash of arm-twisting adds up to something of an empty cupboard in the ideas department.

Tira is ever ready with a flip double entendre and she permits no skeleton to be found behind her cupboard doors.

The best part, though, was exorcizing that bottle of hot sauce with the creepy label from my cupboard.

Waters was either too polite or too distracted to mention what was in my cupboard.

Utensils for the tea-serving ceremony are in an open cupboard.

First, take the bourbon out of the cupboard and have a small snort for medicinal purposes.

Luckily, my ever-overstocked cupboard revealed a can of salted, roasted almonds.

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World English Dictionary

cupboard (ˈkʌbəd)

—n
	a piece of furniture or a recessed area of a room, with a door concealing storage space

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Word Origin & History

cupboard

early 14c., "a board or table to place cups and like objects," from cup + board. As a type of closed cabinet for food, etc., from early 16c.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

cupboard

type of furniture that originated in the Middle Ages as a board or table for cups. The word also may have been used for a stepped sideboard and later for open shelves, both to display plate. Since the 16th century the name has referred to a case fitted with doors.

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