ice cupboard

English

ice cupboard (plural ice cupboards)

(dated) A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
- 1897, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Volume 16, p. 157,
  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.
- 1933, George Orwell, chapter 11, in Down and Out in Paris and London‎:
  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.

单词	ice cupboard
释义	ice cupboard English Noun ice cupboard (plural ice cupboards) (dated) A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods. 1897, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Volume 16, p. 157, 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. 1933, George Orwell, chapter 11, in Down and Out in Paris and London‎: 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. Synonyms coolroom
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