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• press cupboard — noun : a 16th and 17th century cupboard resembling a court cupboard but having drawers or doors below the main shelf * * * Eng. Furniture. a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which …   Useful english dictionary

• press cupboard — Eng. Furniture. a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets. Cf. court cupboard. * * * …   Universalium

• cupboard — [n] storage cabinet buffet, closet, depository, facility, locker, press, repository, sideboard, storeroom, wardrobe; concept 443 …   New thesaurus

• Cupboard — English livery cupboard approximately 1600 to 1640 Decorative crockery and b …   Wikipedia

• cupboard — /kub euhrd/, n. 1. a closet with shelves for dishes, cups, etc. 2. Chiefly Brit. any small closet or cabinet, as for clothes, food, or the like. [1275 1325; ME cuppebord. See CUP, BOARD] * * * ▪ furniture  type of furniture that originated in the …   Universalium

• press bed — noun : a bed that is set wholly within or folds into a press or cupboard with doors * * * a bed enclosed within a closet, cupboard, etc. Cf. Murphy bed. [1650 60] * * * press bed noun A bed enclosed in a cupboard, or folding up into it • • • Main …   Useful english dictionary

• cupboard — [14] A cupboard was originally exactly that: a ‘board’, or table, on which cups (and other pieces of crockery or plate) were placed for display. Essentially, it was what we would now call a sideboard. The modern sense, ‘recess with doors and… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• cupboard — [14] A cupboard was originally exactly that: a ‘board’, or table, on which cups (and other pieces of crockery or plate) were placed for display. Essentially, it was what we would now call a sideboard. The modern sense, ‘recess with doors and… …   Word origins

• press */*/*/ — I UK [pres] / US noun Word forms press : singular press plural presses 1) the press newspapers and news magazines the national/local/American/sports press the popular/tabloid press in the press: She has been criticized in the press for not… …   English dictionary

• press — I Everyday English Slang in Ireland n cupboard II Irish Slang closet, cupboard III South African Slang sex , as in: I want to press my young one tonight (KZN) …   English dialects glossary

• press — 1. v. & n. v. 1 tr. apply steady force to (a thing in contact) (press a switch; pressed the two surfaces together). 2 tr. a compress or apply pressure to a thing to flatten, shape, or smooth it, as by ironing (got the curtains pressed). b squeeze …   Useful english dictionary