court-cupboard

Definitions

noun A cabinet or sideboard having a number of shelves for the display of plate, etc. See cupboard.

noun obsolete A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.

noun obsolete A movable sideboard or buffet on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special occasions.

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Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.

Romeo and Juliet 2004
The table, of old English oak, stood ready covered with the finest linen; and a large portable court-cupboard was placed with the leaves of its embossed folding-doors displayed, showing the shelves within, decorated with a full display of plate and porcelain.

Kenilworth 2004
A court-cupboard would make a beautiful sideboard, and one of the long tables spoken of above would make an appropriate serving-table.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop
Often the lower part contained receptacles as in the characteristic English court-cupboard.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.

Act I. Scene V. Romeo and Juliet 1914
The table, of old English oak, stood ready covered with the finest linen; and a large portable court-cupboard was placed with the leaves of its embossed folding-doors displayed, showing the shelves within, decorated with a full display of plate and porcelain.

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.

Romeo and Juliet 1595