tridarn cupboard

[ trahy-dahrn ]

/ ˈtraɪ dɑrn /

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noun

a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.

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Origin of tridarn cupboard

tridarn<Welsh, equivalent to trithree + darn piece

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All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
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There was the same cupboard that had been our mountain; here the same chairs that formed our ridges and our valleys.
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He refilled his glass, and having looked in his cigarette-case, began to ransack a small cupboard.
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