Brewer's: Court-cupboard

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

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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