Court-cupboard.

The buffet to hold flagons, cans, cups, and beakers. There are two in Stationersʹ Hall.

“A way with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.”—Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i. 5.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.