Meanings
plural cellarets
- A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.
2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 3491 more example
I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314
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