CABINET, also denotes a piece of joiners workmanship, being a kind of press or chest, with several doors and drawers.
There are common cabinets of oak or of chestnut varnished, cabinets of China and Japan, cabinets of inlaid-work, and some of ebony, or the like scarce and precious woods. Formerly the Dutch and German cabinets were much esteemed in France; but are now quite out of date, as well as the cabinets of ebony which came from Venice.