单词 | table vessel |
释义 | > as lemmastable vessel table vessel n. (originally, as a mass noun) †glasses, drinking cups, or other vessels used as tableware (obsolete); (in later use, as a count noun) a glass, drinking cup, or other vessel for use at table. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > a table-vessel table vessel1587 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xi. 238/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I It breedeth in like manner great expense and waste of wood, as dooth the making of our pots and table vessell of glasse, wherein is much losse sith it is so quicklie broken. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 14 One masse, whereof they make our drinking Glasses, and all sortes of Table-vessell. 1842 W. Smith & L. Schmitz tr. B. G. Niebuhr Hist. Rome III. Index 651/1 Dominia, table-vessels of noble metal. 1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 189/1 Peculiarly delicate and graceful beakers and ornamental table vessels. 1997 S. I. Rotroff Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian & Imported Wheelmade Table Ware 204 The rhyton, pierced at the bottom, would be an awkward table vessel. < as lemmas |
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