winecup
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
winecup (plural winecups)
- A vessel from which wine is drunk.
- (figurative) The consumption of alcohol; drinking; alcohol as a drink.
- 1856, Permanent Temperance Documents, New York: American Temperance Society, page 61:
- These are the proudest trophies, the most splendid fruits of the victories of the wine-cup.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62:
- He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
Usage notes[edit]
Usually used when the cup is not glass, to deliberately imply that it is old, or to make the prose seem archaic.
Translations[edit]
vessel from which wine is drunk