Goblet
['gɒblɪt] or ['ɡɑblət]
Definition
(n.) A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.
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Definition
n. a large drinking-cup without a handle.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream that you drink water from a silver goblet, you will meet unfavorable business results in the near future. To see goblets of ancient design, you will receive favors and benefits from strangers. For a woman to give a man a glass goblet full of water, denotes illicit pleasures.
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Examples
- But, by my faith, a Saxon boy of twelve, in my time, would not so soon have relinquished his goblet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The date of this interesting visit to Ansonia is fixed by an inscription made by Edison on a glass goblet which he used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Beside each person of rank was placed a goblet of silver; the lower board was accommodated with large drinking horns. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Bring me the professor's goblet, James! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fill thyself another goblet of wine, said the Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He filled himself unbidden, a third goblet of wine, and left the apartment without ceremony. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And some few, among whom were Front-de-Boeuf and the Templar, in sullen disdain suffered their goblets to stand untasted before them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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