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Cupboard (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

A sideboard used for the display of gold and silver plate. This is the earliest meaning of cuiiboard, a board or table for disi)laying cups and otlier ve.ssela ; cf. Greene (1592), ' Her mistress the cubboorde for shewe.' set all her plate on J. Hastings.

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