salt cellar

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.
    — Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlour, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us.
  2. Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”). UK

词形变化

salt cellars plural saltcellar alternative salt-cellar alternative

词源

From salt + cellar, from 15th Century Middle English saler, from Middle French salier, from Latin salārius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”). Modified based on originally unrelated English cellar.
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