sillabub

American  

[sil-uh-buhb] / ˈsɪl əˌbʌb /

Or sillibub

noun

1. syllabub.

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sillabub British  

/ ˈsɪləˌbʌb /

noun

1. a variant spelling of syllabub

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Example Sentences

Mary Magdalen salvaged a fine china sillabub stand, with little white-and-gold covered cups on it, from a sooty box under a kitchen cupboard.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

I find in his diary references to these drinks: Ale, beer, mead, metheglin, tea, chocolate, sage tea, cider, wine, sillabub, claret, sack, canary, punch, sack-posset, and black cherry brandy.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

At a minuet or sillabub, poor Antoinette was unrivaled; and Charles, on the tightrope, was so graceful and so gentil that Madame Saqui might envy him.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

It nevertheless involved a charm, on which—a devoted epicure of my own emotions—I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel