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Etymology

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From cabinet +‎ -like.

Adjective

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cabinetlike (comparative more cabinetlike, superlative most cabinetlike)

  1. Resembling a cabinet
    • 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.