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A cupboard (IPA: /ˈkʌvɚd/) is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery, and protect them from dust and dirt. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 837 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cupboard or armoire with decorative crockery Serwantka z ozdobnÄ… porcelanÄ…, naczyniami i bibelotami File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 837 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cupboard or armoire with decorative crockery Serwantka z ozdobnÄ… porcelanÄ…, naczyniami i bibelotami File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it... A cabinet is a usually oblong piece of furniture, often attached to a wall and made of wood, used throughout the world for the storage of clothes or other miscellaneous items. ...


As the name suggests, this piece of furniture was originally covered. An airing cupboard is a domestic room more usually resembling a wardrobe in size and proportion, although sometimes large enough to be considered a small room, and which houses the boiler in a central heating installation. Shelves (usually slatted to allow for circulation of heat) are positioned above the boiler to provide storage for clothing, typically linen and towelling. The purpose is to prevent damp rather than to dry wet clothing. It may also be called simply a 'boiler cupboard' and by certain regional names. In Ireland, for example, a common term is hot press, see the article there. For the UK band, see Furniture (band). ... Look up Wardrobe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Grand Central Records albums, see Central Heating (Grand Central album) and Central Heating 2. ... Hot Press is a music and political magazine founded in 1977, based in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. ...


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Frank McCourt speaks from the Filing Cupboard Mark Johnson Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer prize winning author of Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis and Teacher Man came in to see the Press Books team this week - and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to pose some questions of my own in the Filing Cupboard.
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Cupboard - LoveToKnow 1911 (449 words)
Throughout the 18th century the cupboard was a distinguished domestic institution, and the housewife found her chief joy in accumulating cupboards full of china, glass and preserves.
With the exception of a very few examples of fine ecclesiastical cupboards which partook chiefly of the nature of the armoire in that they were intended for the storage of vestments, the so-called court-cupboard is perhaps the oldest form of the contrivance.
The corner cupboard, which is in many ways the most pleasing and artistic form of this piece of furniture, originated in the 18th century, which as we have seen was the golden age of the cupboard.
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