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Court-cupboard

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The buffet to hold flagons, cans, cups, and beakers. There are two in Stationersʹ Hall.

“A way with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.”—Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i. 5.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Coup de Théâtre
Coup Manqué (A)
Coupon
Courage of One’s Opinion
Courland Weather
Course
Course
Court
Court Circular
Court-cupboard
Court Fools
Court Holy Water
Court Plaster
Court of Love
Court of Pie-powder
Court of the Gentiles (The)
Courtesy
Courtesy Titles
Cousin
Cousin