单词 | psykter |
释义 | psyktern. Originally and chiefly Ancient Greek Archaeology. An open-topped jar used for cooling wine, typically made of earthenware or metal, with a narrow, high-lipped opening widening to a bulbous central bowl, which tapers to a tall narrow base; (in later use also) a replica piece imitating Greek originals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > water- or wine-cooler keelerc1440 keel-vat1552 gargolette1650 ice-pail1699 water cooler1807 ice bucket1821 sarcophagus1833 cooler1838 olla1844 psykter1848 champagne bucket1874 monkey-pot1884 koozie1979 1848 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) Psycter, a wine-cooler,..sometimes made of bronze..or silver. 1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 67 The psycter, or cooler to prepare it [sc. wine] for drinking. 1891 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 12 368 The greatest of all Kottabos vases, the Petersburg psykter of Euphronios. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 563/1 There is a psykter signed by Duris. 1948 A. Lane Greek Pottery iv. 48 Cooler (psykter) to be filled with ice or water and lowered into a wine-krater. 1973 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird vi. 75 The tables were crowded with skyphoi and kylikes and psykters. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food ix. 264 This cup, the psycter , was the one to which Alcibiades refers in Plato's Symposium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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