grace-cup

noun

The final drink passed round after grace at the end of a feast, meal etc.; a parting drink.

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Meanings

noungrace-cup (plural grace-cups)

plural grace-cups

  1. The final drink passed round after grace at the end of a feast, meal etc.; a parting drink.

    as a corollary to conclude the feast and continue their mirth, a grace-cup came in to cheer their hearts, and they drank healths to one another again and again.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5
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