cupboardwise
advEtymology From cupboard + -wise.
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Rare In the manner of a cupboard.
- Boxes, assembled within a larger box cupboardwise and placed on a bedside table, can be used for storage in the same way that pockets are used.1957, Catherine Weldon, Young folks in homes: leisure-time activities in child-caring institution:
- By the early nineteenth century there were even kitchen dolls whose skirts opened cupboardwise to reveal suitably papered rooms with shelves...1959, Therle Hughes, Small decorative antiques:
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- They were small upright receptacles intended for hanging against the wall, having a single door opening cupboardwise...2008, Fred Roe, Old Oak Furniture: