cupboard

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The gloomy cupboard was a blotch of shadow.

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  1. noun A closet or cabinet, usually with shelves for storing food, crockery, and utensils.

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  • I goes off, therefore, to procure a duster Where from The woodwork shop, sir, it being a sight nearer the hall than the brooms and brushes cupboard which is out by the canteen exit How long Call it near enough twenty minutes, because on me way I spots a light left on in the flat The flat is on the way to the woodwork shop, I take it No, sir. —  Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 29
  • A safe out of sight in a cupboard is a good choice. —  Joburg.org.za
  • Built like a cupboard, the FlexiVoice hangs on a wall and opens wide to create a large 48 "x 48" recording area that is both very quiet and does not suffer from the usual small room bumps in the lower mid range. —  Harmony Central
  • It turned out that this cupboard is a stove, and he was burned alive. —  THAT Animeblog
  • Michigan should never lose to Toledo, no matter how bare the cupboard was allegedly left by Lloyd Carr. —  Blog updates
 

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  1. Early modern English also cupboord, cupbord, often spelled cubbord, sometimes coberd, to suit the pron.; Middle English cupbord, copebord, from cup, cuppe, cup, + bord, board.
  2. from cupboard, n.
 

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/ˈkəbərd/
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