Other names include boiler cupboard , or (in Ireland) hot press .

Pursuant to the Benes decrees of 1945, the family's properties in Czechoslovakia were confiscated, including Aich Castle, where the stocks were hidden in a hall cupboard.

I was still scared of egg spraying, and continued to catch them with a cup or a bowl, kept handy in a cupboard in case of a cockroach emergency.

Dambudzo Marechera's Facebook page celebrates the life and times of one of the most eccentric figures in African literature. Marechera was a Zimbabwean writer and poet who died at the age of 35 in 1987 after leading a life that he described as an attempt to make myself a skeleton in my own cupboard.