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• n  a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

• Her next was to make Harry a naive hero, plucked from ignominious obscurity--the spidery cupboard under his awful relatives' stairs--and challenged to greatness.
• Instead of being a tidy paragon of organization, your closet is merely a glorified cupboard with delusions of urbanity, a cramped vision of messy modern living.
• Old Mother Methodist Episcopal Church went to her cupboard last week to pay her bishops, retired bishops and widows their salaries and pensions.

• closet

News & Articles

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• Salvation Army calls for food donations
  GREENVILLE — The cupboard is getting bare at The Salvation Army, and officers there are putting out the call for food donations.
  June 10, 2013 - Delta Democrat Times
• WCS hoopsters prepare for success
  Despite bidding farewell to his top rebounder, scorer and shot blocker — all in one player — third-year Wesleyan Christian School head girls basketball coach Keith Wiersig has plenty of reason to be optimistic about next season. Summer league play at Barnsdall — and at a Tulsa team camp — has proven the Lady Mustangs’ cupboard is far from wanting.
  June 10, 2013 - Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
• Easy Terrarium
  The Garden team of the country cupboard creates a beautiful terrarium that is practically maintenance free. The Country Cupboard in...
  June 8, 2013 - WNEP 16 Pennsylvania

Quotes

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• Vince Cable in Times Online
  Vince Cable, the business secretary, said: "I fear that a lot of bad news about the public finances has been hidden and stored up for the new government. The skeletons are starting to fall out of the cupboard."
• Ian Chappell in guardian.co.uk
  There are many skeletons dangling in Botham's cupboard, ranging from stories of drug-taking to general thuggery, and if he keeps peddling his lies, there's every chance more of these stories will emerge,Chappell wrote in an article in the...
• Brooke Satchwell in The Age
  A shaken Satchwell said terrified guests locked themselves in toilet cubicles as dead bodies lay outside and "people were being shot in the hallways". "The staff let us hide in a service cupboard between the two bathrooms. We sat in there...