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china closet

or china cabinet

noun

First recorded in 1765–75

Then he must go back to the dining-room or the china closet and take the cook with him.

One might have thought they were big and little and middling-sized clam-shells, if one had not seen them in a china-closet.

He never could be made to understand why certain articles in the china closet should have certain places.

There was in the china closet a small piece of furniture, very convenient about a house, called a step-ladder.

It opened into a small china-closet, connected by another door with a long passage.

What did the lady take me for; a Chinaman, to put me in a china closet?

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