CABINET

I. noun Etymology: Middle French, small room, diminutive of Middle French dialect (Picard) cabine gambling house Date: circa 1550 1. a case or cupboard usually having doors and shelves, a collection of specimens especially of biological or numismatic interest, console 4a, a chamber having temperature and humidity controls and used especially for incubating biological samples, 2. a small room providing seclusion, a small exhibition room in a museum, 3. a. archaic the private room serving as council chamber of the chief councillors or ministers of a sovereign, the consultations and actions of these councillors, b. a body of advisers of a head of state, a similar advisory council of a governor of a state or a mayor, a meeting of a ~, milk shake , II. adjective Date: 1631 of or relating to a governmental ~, suitable by reason of size for a small room or by reason of attractiveness or perfection for preservation and display in a ~, 3. used or adapted for ~making, done or used by a ~maker