schrank

[ shrangk ]

noun

1. (in Pennsylvania Dutch furniture) a two-door clothes cabinet one side of which has drawers and shelves and the other side an open space for hanging clothes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schrank¹

From Pennsylvania Dutch; compare German Schrank “cupboard”

Example Sentences

On that date, Theodore Roosevelt, another former president campaigning for a return to the White House, was shot by a mentally ill bar owner from New York City named John Schrank.

From Salon

According to the Washington Post, “Schrank died in a mental institution in 1943.”

From Salon

In which city did Theodore Roosevelt survive being shot by a deranged saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank in 1912?

From Slate

"The government is fiddling with a system that's fundamentally broken," Nina Schrank from Greenpeace told BBC News.

From BBC

Stefan Schrank, who works for Alstom, believes that Germany could replace up to 3,000 of its diesel trains with hydrogen-powered trains.

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