court cupboard
noun English Furniture.
a sideboard of the 16th and 17th centuries, having three open tiers, the middle of which sometimes has a small closed cabinet with oblique sides.
Compare
press cupboard.
Origin of court cupboard
First recorded in 1585–95
Words nearby court cupboard
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court of appeal
Example sentences from the Web for court cupboard
Often the lower part contained receptacles as in the characteristic English court-cupboard.
These little livery cupboards usually stood on another, from which they were detached, and which was the "court-cupboard."
An Old English Home |S. Baring-GouldAway with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet |William Shakespeare
British Dictionary definitions for court cupboard
court cupboard
noun
a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc