muffinier

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A form of muffineer — A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmuffinier (plural muffiniers)

plural muffiniers

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of muffineer.

    CHINA, GLASS, CROCKERY - […] 9-piece hand-painted tea service; muffinier; ironstone tureens, […]

    1988 May 21, “Public sale of personal property of items belonging to Ellen F. Sutliff, […]”, in Lancaster Farming, volume 33, number 28, Ephrata, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D39, column 1
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    RUSTOMJEE PESTONJEE will sell by Public Auction, on MONDAY, the 9th instant, at his Rooms, in Medow Street, the property of the late Captain Ord, 3rd Regt. N.I., comprising a Double Barrelled Gun, by Baker, Silver Tea and Sugar Pots, four pairs of Muffiniers, Spoons and Forks, &c., a pair of Plated Hotwater Curry Dishes, Waiters, Candlesticks, Dessert Knives and Forks, &c. &c., also, the Effects of several deceased persons.

    1862 February 5, Rustomjee Pestonjee & Co., “Sale by Public Auction, by Order of the Administrator General”, in The Bombay Gazette and Indian Daily News, number 5,499 (New Series), Bombay: Bombay Gazette Press, →OCLC, page 4, column 5

    Muffinier, unidentified, lent by Mrs. William P. Hacker. […] The muffinier is engraved “S.R.M.”

    1938, “English Silver”, in Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime [i.e., Phoebe Phillips Prime], compiler, Three Centuries of Historic Silver […] (Fifth Publication of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Society, →OCLC, page 118

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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