Meanings
adjectivecabinetlike (comparative more cabinetlike, superlative most cabinetlike)
comparative more cabinetlike · superlative most cabinetlike
- Resembling a cabinet
His art and his story are like few others, and so is the museum’s inspired installation: a single, long corridor with cabinetlike rooms of paintings on either side and, at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating overhead.
2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times
Origin
- Englishcabinet
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishcabinetlike
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