stirrup cup

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A parting drink taken after mounting one's horse. historical
    — 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 2, Chapter 4, pp. 85-86, […] after the Lord Keeper, the Master, and the domestics, had drunk doch-an-dorroch, or the stirrup-cup, in the liquors adapted to their various ranks, the cavalcade resumed its progress.
  2. A drink taken before leaving or parting company with someone. broadly
    — Mrs. French insisted that they come into her room for a cordial, when she heard they were leaving. “You must have a stirrup cup,” Mrs. French said to Carol.
  3. A cup from which such a drink is taken.
    — Bishop Dancer is a man you would most quickly understand if you saw him on a Saturday in Camden, dressed in his red hunting jacket and high black boots, leaning forward to accept some hot toddy from the stirrup cup.

词形变化

stirrup cups plural
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary