grace-cup

English

Noun

grace-cup (plural grace-cups)

1. The final drink passed round after grace at the end of a feast, meal etc.; a parting drink.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , II.5.1.v:

     as a corollary to conclude the feast and continue their mirth, a grace-cup came in to cheer their hearts, and they drank healths to one another again and again.