cellaret
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cellaret (plural cellarets)
- A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314:
- I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full.
- 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:
- The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314:
References[edit]
- “cellaret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.