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China closet   /tʃˈaɪnə klˈɑzət/   Listen
China closet

noun
1.
A cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china.  Synonym: china cabinet.






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"China closet" Quotes from Famous Books



... the china-closet!" He would cry, and laugh with glee— It wasn't the china closet, But he still had Two ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various

... the kitchen. It was a mite of a room, but Faith was very proud of it; this was to be her workshop; here cooking was to be carried on as a fine art. No ruthless Biddy should soil the purity of her new pine table, or tread out the gray matting of the floor. She took a last peep into the china closet, looked lovingly at a row of tin dishes new and shining, bestowed admiring glances at the gasoline stove, the presiding genius of the whole, then she opened the outside door into an old-fashioned garden, filled ...
— Divers Women • Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston

... hooks, and on each hook hung a pot, a pan, a ladle, a spoon. And there was the tiny gas range, the infinitesimal ice chest, the miniature sink. The whole would have been lost in one corner of the Brewster's Winnebago china closet. ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... both triggers. I felt worse after I had crawled out of the cistern, where the perfidious gun had kicked me, and learned that I had missed the whole drove and sent a hatful of slugs and nails into a neighbor's china closet. I broke the gun over Old Brindle's vertebrae and followed up the attack with the garden-fork. After I had chased the entire drove back and forth over the garden a dozen times, and seen what was left of my summer's work inextricably mixed with the sub-soil, fallen over the wheelbarrow ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... stay!" Mrs. Porter said uncertainly, following her to the big book closet off the schoolroom, where a little gas stove and a small china closet occupied one wide shelf. The water for the tea and bouillon was put over the flame in a tiny enamelled saucepan; they set forth on a fringed napkin crackers and sugar ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris



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