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assay cup
noun
- a small wine cup for tasting wine to be offered to another person.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of assay cup1
First recorded in 1520–30
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Edward IV. presented to the ambassadors of Charles of Burgundy a costly assay cup of gold, ornamented with pearls and a great sapphire, and, to use the words of an old writer, “in the myddes of the cuppe ys a grete pece of a Vnicornes horne.â€
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