drinking-cup

Definitions

A cup for drinking

Equivalents

Examples

“He took the drinking cup—funny, like⟳ a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.”

“"He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]"”

“Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke⟳ hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.”

“A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form⟳ and fastened with a split⟳ stick⟳.”

“If the match⟳ is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include⟳ dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.”

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