Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of deep tray with divisions for bottles, in which decanters of wine or cordial are passed round a dinner- or banquet-table after the dessert: sometimes made for one decanter only.
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Examples
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Oh, Clarence, I wish you had seen the two Lady R. 's sticking close to one another, their father pushing them on together, like two decanters in a bottle-coaster, with such magnificent diamond labels round their necks! '
Belinda 1801
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Clarence, I wish you had seen the two Lady R. 's sticking close to one another, their father pushing them on together, like two decanters in a bottle-coaster, with such magnificent diamond labels round their necks! "
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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