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Meaning of muffineer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
  2. A dish for keeping muffins hot.
    obsolete

Examples

“He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.”
“The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.”
“The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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