standing cup
Americannoun
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The baby Bess, like babies nowadays, had her christening presents: "By the queen's majesty a great standing cup; Countess of Sussex a standing cup; Earl of Leicester a great bowl."
From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
And it is probably derived from the Irish "Maeddher," a standing cup, generally of wood, of a quadrangular form, with a handle on each of the sides.
From Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
He left £100 to dower poor maidens, and his best "standing cup" to his brethren, the Merchant Taylors.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Pausania, if he had seene this, would haue taken small pleasure to boast of the standing cup which he made to Hipparis.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert
He left to the Merchant Taylors his best standing cup, "in friendly remembrance of him for ever."
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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