brandy bottle

British  

noun

1. another name for a yellow water lily

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Example Sentences

For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is an inkwell next to the lamp, a brass statue of an Egyptian deity, a clock, and the empty brandy bottle.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

I never took a brandy bottle upstairs with me in my life.

From Pirate Gold by Stimson, Frederic Jesup

A 'nurse' meant then a coarse old woman, always ignorant, usually dirty, often brutal, a Mrs. Gamp, in bunched-up sordid garments, tippling at the brandy bottle or indulging in worse irregularities.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton