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Meaning of drinking-cup | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A cup for drinking

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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