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A cabinet is usually a box-shaped piece of furniture, either standing alone or built into or, like a medicine cabinet, attached to a wall. It is typically made of wood or, now increasingly, of synthetic materials, and used for storage of miscellaneous items.

Cabinets usually have one or more doors on the front that are mounted with door hardware and occasionally a lock; and may also contain drawers. Short cabinets often have a finished surface on top that can be used for display, or as a working surface such as the countertops found in kitchens.

A cabinet intended for clothing storage is usually called a wardrobe or an armoire (or a closet if built in). In previous centuries, such a cabinet was also known as a linen-press. In British usage, a wardrobe was occasionally referred to as an oakley^{[citation needed]}, because of the oak wood used in its construction. In India, a cabinet is often referred to as an Almari.

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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Cabinet.

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