Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cabinet for storing bottles of wine or liquor.

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  • noun A drinks cabinet

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Examples

  • Fig. 59 shows a deep drawer, generally known as a cellarette, and used in

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • He frowned at her questioningly, hesitated and then went to a small cellarette.

    The Glass Slipper Eberhart, Mignon G 1938

  • The wide use of the suffix - ette in such terms as farmerette, conductorette, kitchenette, cellarette, featurette, leatherette, flannelette, crispette, usherette and huskerette, is due to the same effort to make one word do the work of two.

    Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921

  • I remember Moira's yawning as she closed the cellarette, and her wondering how Mrs. Kennaston could keep on rouging and powdering at her age, and why Kennaston never had anything in particular to say for himself?

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • He had fished the key of the cellarette from its hiding-place in my shoe bag and was mixing himself what he called a Bernard Shaw -- a foundation of brandy and soda, with a little of everything else in sight to give it snap.

    The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Jim presented everybody, and then he went into the den and closed the door and we heard him unlock the cellarette.

    When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Del Mar moved toward a cellarette built into the wall.

    The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" 1908

  • "If instead of sitting there," Mr.. Barnes continued in high good humour, "you were to get a bottle of that port wine out of the cellarette, we might drink Mr. Fitzgerald's health, being as it's his first visit."

    Peter Ruff and the Double Four 1906

  • It serves as a pedestal and has one side which opens on hinges allowing the inside to be used as a smoker's cabinet or cellarette.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 1891

  • The old man rose and crossed to an old brass-bound cellarette, which he opened.

    Witness to the Deed George Manville Fenn 1870

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