Goblet

//ˈɡɒblət// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

    "sup wine from a goblet"

  2. 2
    a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup wordnet
  3. 3
    a drinking glass with a base and stem wordnet

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chalicechalicebeakerblackjackbowlcoffee cup

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"On the 2nd of September 1792 when the general massacre of the prisoners took place at Paris, M. Sombreuil was on the point of being sacrificed when he was rescued from the hands of the assassins by the heroic conduct of his daughter, though on the dreadful condition that she would drink success to the republic in a goblet of blood!"

Etymology

From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).

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