stirrup cup
Americannoun
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farewell drink, especially one offered to a rider already mounted for departure.
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an ornamental cup or bowl for such a drink.
noun
Etymology
Origin of stirrup cup
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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It seemed a storm in a stirrup cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
But my favorite was a stirrup cup molded in the shape of a wolf’s head and shoulders, with the head lifted and the mouth pulled into an O for a long howl.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
I'll give you a glass of fresh buttermilk to speed you on your way; a stirrup cup, we'll call it.
From The Iron Furrow by Botkin, Henry A.
Tide that comes flooding up, Fill me a stirrup cup, Pledge me a parting sup, Now I go free.
From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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