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refrigerator

(n): white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

A reflection at once so prudent and so virtuous acted as a refrigerator on my spirits; but visions of pleasure and of interest soon raised them again above the freezing point.

- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 10

Interesting usage from before the days of mechanical refrigerators. I would imagine this was a fairly rare word back then.

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