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Stirrup cup
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Noun
- 1 A parting drink taken after mounting one's horse. historical
"1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 2, Chapter 4, pp. 85-86, […] after the Lord Keeper, the Master, and the domestics, had drunk doch-an-dorroch, or the stirrup-cup, in the liquors adapted to their various ranks, the cavalcade resumed its progress."
- 2 a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic wordnet
- 3 A drink taken before leaving or parting company with someone. broadly
"Mrs. French insisted that they come into her room for a cordial, when she heard they were leaving. “You must have a stirrup cup,” Mrs. French said to Carol."
- 4 A cup from which such a drink is taken.
"Bishop Dancer is a man you would most quickly understand if you saw him on a Saturday in Camden, dressed in his red hunting jacket and high black boots, leaning forward to accept some hot toddy from the stirrup cup."
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