ice cupboard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long-term, stable storage of perishable foods.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "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."