cabinet picture
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cabinet picture
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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In a twinkling, memory had swept the dust from my little cabinet picture, and let in upon it a sudden light.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
It also makes a perfect gem of a cabinet picture.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
Steele, in one of his numerous periodical works, the twelfth number of the “Theatre,” has drawn an exquisite contrast 172 between himself and his friend Addison: it is a cabinet picture.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
This was the hasty exclamation of a connoisseur on taking up a small cabinet picture.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
Of course, my little cabinet picture had been joined by many others.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
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