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GOBLET

Volume 8 · 46 words · 1797 Edition

or Gobelet, a kind of drinking cup, or bowl, ordinarily of a round figure, and without either foot or handle. The word is French, gobet; which Salmasius, and others, derive from the barbarous Latin cupa. Budeus deduces it from the Greek κύπελλον, a sort of cup.