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Elijah's cup

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noun

  1. a cup of wine customarily set apart in honor of the prophet Elijah at the Jewish Passover Seder.

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Uncle Sam handed around the large cut-crystal goblet, Elijah’s cup, and everyone poured a little bit of wine from their own glasses into it.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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