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standing cup
noun
- a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
Example Sentences
‘Johnny Tremain, alias Jonathan Lyte Tremain ... apprentice to Ephraim Lapham ... name of King and Bay Colony... standing cup ... taken away the twenty-third day... month ... year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.’
The baby Bess, like babies nowadays, had her christening presents: "By the queen's majesty a great standing cup; Countess of Sussex a standing cup; Earl of Leicester a great bowl."
The word “hanap†is translated by Cotgrave in his French dictionary of 1660 as “a drinking cup or goblet,†and probably was intended to mean what would be called a standing cup, that is, raised on a foot, to distinguish it from a bowl of the mazer class.
He left to the Merchant Taylors his best standing cup, "in friendly remembrance of him for ever."
He left £100 to dower poor maidens, and his best "standing cup" to his brethren, the Merchant Taylors.
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