cruet

[ kroo-it ]
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noun
  1. a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.

Origin of cruet

1
1250–1300; Middle English <Anglo-French, equivalent to Old French cru(i)e pitcher (<Frankish *krūka; compare Old English crūce pot) + -et-et

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How to use cruet in a sentence

  • They also plundered a church of its ornaments and relics, among which were two cruets, a silver chalice, and an altar-cloth.

    Notable Voyagers | W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith
  • Even the stacked cruets remembered the days when they cunningly blazed in a shop window.

    A Bed of Roses | W. L. George
  • This sum was devoted to the purchase of a pyx, a silver gilt chalice, and a basin and cruets.

  • Of the cruets containing wine and water for the celebration we have already written.

    English Villages | P. H. Ditchfield
  • Who knows how many “yellow admirals” at Bath have fallen victims to their cayenne-cruets?

British Dictionary definitions for cruet

cruet

/ (ˈkruːɪt) /


noun
  1. a small container for holding pepper, salt, vinegar, oil, etc, at table

  2. a set of such containers, esp on a stand

  1. Christianity either of a pair of small containers for the wine and water used in the Eucharist

  2. Australian a slang word for head (def. 1)

  3. do one's cruet Australian slang to be extremely angry; go into a rage

pl n
  1. Australian slang the testicles

Origin of cruet

1
C13: from Anglo-French, diminutive of Old French crue flask, of Germanic origin; compare Old Saxon krūka, Old English crūce pot

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