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Dutch
Etymology
From ijs (“ice”) + kast (“cupboard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛi̯s.kɑst/
- Hyphenation: ijs‧kast
Noun
ijskast f (plural ijskasten, diminutive ijskastje n)
- refrigerator (originally a cupboard filled with ice to keep goods cool).
- Synonym: koelkast
- ca. 1862, "IJshandel", in Oom Diederik, Uit ons eigen land en uit den vreemde, publ. by H. A. M. Roelants, page 116.
Een „refrigerator”, d. i. een draagbaar ijshuis (ijskast) ontbreekt nooit in het huis van een fatsoenlijk Amerikaan.- A "refrigerator", t.i. a portable coolhouse (ice cupboard) is never absent from the home of a respectable American.
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