Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An elaborate drinking-cup, large, and without a stand or stem; a bowl intended for use in drinking wine.

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Examples

  • Grant every favour, — always excepting what is forbidden by our oath on the wine-bowl.

    Lysistrata 2000

  • It might be a small bronze of Dionysos with gilded thyrsos-wand and wreath; or a big wine-bowl painted with Theseus among the Amazons.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • Grant every favour, -- always excepting what is forbidden by our oath on the wine-bowl.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • The wine-bowl, too, was crowned with flowers, as at an Egyptian banquet.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Everywhere flowers abounded; they were formed into wreaths and festoons, they decked the stands that supported the vases in the convivial chamber, and crowned the wine-bowl as well as the servants who bore the cup from it to the assembled guests.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Far from home, careless and pleasure-seeking, light of purse and light of heart the wandering scholars of the Middle Ages frequented taverns, as well as lecture rooms, and knew the wine-bowl even better than books.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • I watched him to the door, catching his robe as the wine-bowl crashed to the floor, spilling a few wet lees

    American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

  • However, just as the wine-bowl spoiled the project of the galleon, so did the treachery of a lickspittle, surely one of the meanest of created things, put an end to the mutiny.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • Then set the rustic bowl upon the table in place of the wine-bowl, and drink the snowy milk and dark must, and soon through the heaps of crackling straw leap in swift course with eager limbs. '

    The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

  • And men, throwing passion into the wine-bowl to sink or swim, turned out thought to browse upon the green cloth.

    The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

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