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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cupboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... instant's hesitation, and the die was cast. Macfarlane could not suppress a nervous twitch, the infinitesimal mark of an immense relief, as he felt the key between his fingers. He opened the cupboard, brought out pen and ink and a paper-book that stood in one compartment, and separated from the funds in a drawer a sum suitable ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

... logical argument, but he could not stand up against the "someting to eat." He sank into the chair again like an infant. Mr Methusaleh took quick advantage of his success. Rushing wildly to a corner cupboard, he produced from it a plate of cold crisp fried fish, which he placed with all imaginable speed exactly under the nose of the still vacillating Aby. He vacillated no longer. The spell was complete. The old gentleman, with a perfect reliance upon the charm, proceeded to prepare ...

— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various

... us into was the library—three walls lined with books, mostly with German titles—a big cupboard in one corner, reaching from floor to ceiling—a big desk by the window—three armchairs and a stool. There were no pictures, and the only thing that smacked of ornament was the Persian rug ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... brow, Adolph now turned his attention to the machine that had startled him so when he first came in. He examined minutely its mechanism to see that everything was right. Going to the cupboard, he took up a false bottom and lifted carefully out a number of dynamite cartridges that the two sleepers had stolen from a French mine. These he arranged in a battery, tying them together. He raised the hammer of the machine, and set the ...

— Revenge! • by Robert Barr

... way. I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. A small cupboard held a diminutive but commodious ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

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