Meaning of ice cupboard | Babel Free

Definitions

A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.

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Examples

“The activity of the yeast extract does not last⟳ long; it had vanished after being kept five days in an ice cupboard, but lasted for two weeks when mixed with cane-sugar solution.”

“At one end⟳ were five service lifts, and at the other an ice cupboard where we stored milk and butter. When you went into the ice cupboard you dropped a hundred degrees of temperature at a single step; it used to remind⟳ me of the hymn about Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand.”

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