Meaning of epergne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of epergne.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A table centerpiece, usually made of silver, generally consisting of a central bowl with radiating dishes or holders.

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“[…] his precious helpmate sat grinning at the mischief she had occasioned, like⟳ an idiot, asking Colonel Lamborn to help⟳ her to some of them there thingumbobs out of the silver what-d’ye-call’um. These thingumbobs happened to be no other than a service of West India sweetmeats in a superb fillagree epergne, […]”

“But I did like⟳ a lot of her things—the vase in the middle of the dining-room table for instance. Helen called it Mama's “epergne”. It was a two-storey thing of glass and silver and was always full of choice flowers, pure white geraniums that one longed to stroke and kiss to see⟳ if they were real, fat begonias and big heavy-headed fuchsias.”

“But Richmond[…]appeared to lose⟳ himself in his own⟳ reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw⟳, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view⟳, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.”

“They made there, on the breakfast-table, a patch, as it were, of mosaic among the silver chafing dishes, silver épergnes filled with peaches in pyramids, and great silver rose-bowls […].”

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