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cabinet picture

noun

  1. a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cabinet picture1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

Here are the king's private apartments, from choice, comparatively small and compact, and the cabinet picture-gallery.

This was the hasty exclamation of a connoisseur on taking up a small cabinet picture.

An Advocate in his Study—Ostade: an exquisitely finished cabinet picture.

Of course, my little cabinet picture had been joined by many others.

Wilson has been seen poring over the texture of a Dutch cabinet-picture, so that he could not see the picture itself.

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