Meanings
plural lemon-squeezers
- alternativeAlternative form of lemon squeezer.
There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.
2018 August 2, Parul Sehgal, “Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret”, in The Bellingham Herald, volume 130, number 214, Bellingham, Wash., page 15T, column 22 more examples
The last relics of the corporation of Carlisle about to be sold are—a tea-kettle, a coffee-boiler, cups and saucers, a lemon-squeezer, a punch-ladle, a gridiron, and eighteen tumblers.
1836 April 16, “Corporation Relics”, in Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian, […], volume XIII, number 665, Southampton, Hampshire, page [4], column 6“I want children to learn the difference between then and now; we still have old-fashioned lemon-squeezers, but now they have juicers and blenders,” said [Debra] Payne, of Thousand Oaks.
2015 June 14, Alicia Doyle, “Museum gives hands-on history lessons”, in Ventura County Star, Camarillo, Calif., page 3B, columns 5–6
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