china-closet

'Hannah, don't you remember my finding the china-closet here, with the gilt-edge china on the shelves, and then _you_ said that the _china-closet_ had always been here?'

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

I will not deposit it in a broken-spouted tea-pot, and shut it up in a china-closet among tea-things.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

After the wedding the punch-bowls were arranged in the sideboard with the big bowl in the centre; the glasses were set up in the china-closet; the candlesticks were put at both ends of things — and then the struggle for existence began.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

"You remember those houses with such little squeezed rooms and that flourishing staircase, with the colored-glass china-closet window and no butler's sink?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Her china-closet was a picture, with platters in rows and cups hanging on little brass hooks under the shelves.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

So when that meal is ready I spread on the said table, which at other times does duty as a china-closet, a quarter of a sheet, which, with its three companion quarters, was sanctified and set apart, when I first arrived here, for that sacred purpose.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Mrs. Bogus, for instance, lives to keep her house in order, her closets locked, her silver counted and in the safe, and her china-closet in undisturbed order.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Finally, if we omit the dining-room also, with its china-closet, our area becomes 3,931 square feet, and the cost only $14,350 for the

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

"Do you still smell spice, and apples, and cider here?" said Mrs. Burgoyne, turning from an investigation of the china-closet, with a radiant face.

The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

After the wedding the punch-bowls were arranged in the sideboard with the big bowl in the centre; the glasses were set up in the china-closet; the candlesticks were put at both ends of things -- and then the struggle for existence began.

Flappers and Philosophers 1918