apothecary jar

American  

noun

1. a small, covered jar, formerly used by druggists to hold pharmaceuticals, now chiefly in household use to hold spices, candies, cosmetics, etc., and sometimes decorated, as a lamp base or flower vase.

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Example Sentences

Telling Didion that “having a pretty place to work is important to a man,” Nancy Reagan fills an apothecary jar with hard candies for his desk, carpets the floors of the State Capitol “in a pleasing shade of green,” Didion writes.

From New York Times

Herndon found them when she was cleaning out the dirt and now has them in a tiny apothecary jar.

From Washington Times

Silver balls fill the apothecary jar in the master bathroom, and above their bed, a wreath adorns a cardboard deer head from Target.

From Washington Post

Now that unwieldy price is about to go the way of the apothecary jar.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has an old dentist's cabinet for her ribbons and lace, an apothecary jar filled with beauty marks, a Wedgwood slop bucket, slabs of stained glass ready for installation, an old captain's desk, Portuguese chairs, 50 used hats, and 80 ancient shoe buckles on as many ancient shoes, which she wears.

From Time Magazine Archive