grace-cup

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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: [] 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.