Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vessel used for decanting, especially a decorative bottle used for serving wine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel used for receiving decanted liquors; especially, a glass bottle, more or less ornamental in character, into which wine or other liquor is poured for use on the table.
- noun One who decants liquors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.
- noun One who decants liquors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
vessel fordecanting liquor - noun a receptacle for decanted
liquor , especially a crystal bottle with a stopper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the term decanter can be broadly defined, but it definitely doesnt mean a $300 piece of designer glass.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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So the term decanter can be broadly defined, but it definitely doesnt mean a $300 piece of designer glass.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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Where I come from we have a saying that a decanter is only as good as the pour (meaning to allow a good splash so the wine can oxidate while pouring).
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Ceramic E bourbon decanter from the rear, where one might expect the Elvis bunghole.
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Lady Bridget brought the whisky decanter from the dining room to the back veranda, and McKeith mounted the steps, the mailman remaining beside them.
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We're going with the ship decanter, which is designed for long journeys at sea, for this Lalique tie-up.
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If Nanny was pouring sherry then she was probably by the sideboard, using not the sherry decanter, which is always empty, but a bottle taken out of the cupboard beneath it.
Michael Frayn: The day my life changed Michael Frayn 2010
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Next, I did a browser search and found an article called "How to Clean The Inside of a Glass Bottle" aka decanter, at TipNuts.
Archive 2009-07-01 neochonetes 2009
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Next, I did a browser search and found an article called "How to Clean The Inside of a Glass Bottle" aka decanter, at TipNuts.
Open To Interpretation! neochonetes 2009
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That's the idea, and that's all there is to it, "added Maguire, putting the labelled decanter back in the stand.
strev commented on the word decanter
de trot et de gallop
June 22, 2009