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china cabinet

n. a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china [syn: china closet]

Usage examples of "china cabinet".

The table and chairs were of walnut, intricately carved, as were the sideboard and china cabinet, which was empty.

Then he put one hand on her shoulder and forced her down on the floor beside the china cabinet, and with a motion of his hand told her to stay there.

There's the outlines left by a china cabinet, the little dents left by the feet of chairs and tables.

A carved china cabinet for the dining room would please us greatly.

Not that either Andy or my mom was particularly happy with me, eithernot because they knew the busted up china cabinet was my fault, but for not ratting my stepbrothers out in the first place.

The dining-room china cabinet comes open and dishes, salad plates, soup tureens, dinner plates, stemware, and cups bounce and roll out the front doors.

He grabbed the edge of the china cabinet they had crashed into and hauled himself up, rattling everything left in it.

The glass-fronted china cabinet was full, and piles of clean crockery covered the worktops, awaiting space that would never be there.

They saw a Barbie dollhouse and a canopy bed and an antique china cabinet and a child's wheelchair and a typewriter and a tangle of golf clubs and a cedar hot tub, split in half like a coconut husk-Bonnie said it was as if a great supernatural fist had snatched up a hundred thousand lives and shaken the contents all over creation.