ice cupboard
ice cupboard noun: a large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
Noun
ice cupboard (plural ice cupboards)
- A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
- The activity of the yeast extract does not last long; it had vanished after being kept five days in an ice cupboard, but lasted for two weeks when mixed with cane-sugar solution.1897, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 16, page 157
- At one end were five service lifts, and at the other an ice cupboard where we stored milk and butter. When you went into the ice cupboard you dropped a hundred degrees of temperature at a single step; it used to remind me of the hymn about Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- coolroom
Synonyms of ice cupboard
Forms of ice cupboard
| plural | ice cupboards |
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Questions about ice cupboard
- What does ice cupboard mean?
- Ice cupboard means a large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
- What part of speech is ice cupboard?
- Ice cupboard is a noun.
- What is the plural of ice cupboard?
- The plural of ice cupboard is ice cupboards.
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