Cabinet
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Cabinet may refer to
- Cabinet (room), a private room serving as a retreat, furnished with books and works of art, usually adjacent to a bedchamber.
- Cabinet (furniture)
- Cabinet of curiosities, early form of private museum
- Cabinet painting, small paintings (for a cabinet room)
- Cabinet card or cabinet photograph
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Etymology
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.
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Namesakes
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) by Robert Wiene
- Carlton Cabinet, book case by Ettore Sottsas
- The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus
- The City of Drawers - Study for the "Anthropomorphic Cabinet" , by Dali
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