cabinet picture
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cabinet picture
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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Of course, my little cabinet picture had been joined by many others.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
He could fancy that scene,—he could see it all, like a beautiful cabinet picture; ah, how different, how different everything would have been then!
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
It also makes a perfect gem of a cabinet picture.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
Each tale is, in fact, a cabinet picture, combining history and romance with landscape.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
There was a poncho about the neck, that covered it down to the ground, and in the morning gray, the figure, the colonnade of tree-trunks, the lazy smoke, a cabinet picture, wore an India-rubber look.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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