cup and cover

American  

noun

English Furniture.

1. a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.

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Example Sentences

There was also a silver cup and cover, nearly thirty ounces in weight, elegantly chased.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

The infant prince was presented with a gilt cup and cover weighing sixty ounces, and containing the sum of £500 in gold.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)

Gorgon was so infuriated by his defeat, that he gave "the Gorgon cup and cover," a matter of fifteen pounds.

From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The Del, or milk pail, is shaped like two cones joined at the base by lateral thongs, the upper and smaller half acting as cup and cover.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It consists of a gold cup and cover, hammered out of pure gold; and around the bowl, base and cover there are bands of figures, illustrating the scenes from the life of St Agnes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various