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单词 press cupboard
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press cupboard
10. Now chiefly Scottish and Irish English. A large (usually shelved) cupboard, esp. one placed in a recess in the wall, for holding linen, clothes, books, etc., or food, plates, dishes, and other kitchen items. Sometimes attributive, esp. as press cupboard. Cf. clothes-press n., linen-press n. at linen adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > recessed
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c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 263 Of double worstede was his semycope That rounded as a belle out of the presse [v.r. on þe presse].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 300v The moþþe..is ygendred of a corrupcioun of cloþe, whan þe cloþ is to longe in presse.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 123 Ȝif þis herbe be put in an hutche or in a presse among clothes, it wyl kepe þe clothys þat no mowthes schall frete hem.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxi. 384 There were presses..in the whiche presses were gownes and robes of fyne golde, and ryche mantelles furryd with sabyls.
1566 Inventarium Monumentorum Superstitionis (Diocese of Lincoln) in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 67 One sepulcre—sold to Johnne orson and he haith made a presse therof to laie clothes therein.
1573 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1994) (modernized text) IX. 20 My press cupboard in my parlour.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 125 Each chamber hath a presse curiously painted and varnished belonging thereunto.
1686 Inv. in Essex Rev. (1906) 15 172 Two chayers, one presse cubbord.
1703 Inv. 2 Oct. in Probate Inventories Lincoln 1661–1714 (1991) 127 One Paress Cubbard.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xiv. 80 He should..conceal himself in a large press or wardrobe, that stood in one corner of the apartment.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 125 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 561 Coffins stood round, like open presses.
1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles iii. 41 The ambry, or shelved wooden press, in which the cow's milk, and other..provision are locked up.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xiii. 221 In a press with glass doors, she showed me some beautiful reliquaries.
1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ii. 50 A ‘press’ or cupboard containing a fair assortment of cooking utensils.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps vi. 147 It was the door of a wall cupboard—what they call a ‘press’ in Scotland.
1936 Esquire Nov. 56 I take one of Finn's white shirts out of the press for him.
1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Jan. 29/1 A further kind of cupboard..was called a press, or press-cupboard, and was about the same general size and shape as a modern wardrobe.
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo ii. 55 The bass drummer kicked open the press in search of food; it yielded little but a few ends of hard bread and a scrape of margarine.
2014 @Laura_Egan 19 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My mam has disappeared, leaving no food in the press.
β. 1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 100 Item, lego eidem j prese kiste in magna camera cum j warre kiste habentem ij stages.1618 in R. C. MacLeod Bk. Dunvegan (1938) I. 118 Item of readie money being within ane buist within the priess.1658 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 140 Thoue brak wp ane of the dors of the prese.1693 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 165 5 duble preses for books.
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