epergne
名词 n.
英 /ɪˈpɜːn/
美 /iˈpɝn/|/eɪˈpɝn/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A table centerpiece, usually made of silver, generally consisting of a central bowl with radiating dishes or holders.
— […] his precious helpmate sat grinning at the mischief she had occasioned, like an idiot, asking Colonel Lamborn to help her to some of them there thingumbobs out of the silver what-d’ye-call’um. These thingumbobs happened to be no other than a service of West India sweetmeats in a superb fillagree epergne, […]
词源
Uncertain; perhaps from French épargne (“savings, treasury”), though it is unclear how the new meaning would have been acquired. Perhaps owing to the typical appearance of an épergne as resembling a balance upon which market goods or coins could be weighed.
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