cellaret
English
Etymology
Noun
cellaret (plural cellarets)
- A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
- 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.
- 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:
References
- “cellaret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.