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GOBLET

Volume 9 · 46 words · 1823 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, goblet; which Salmasius, and others, derive from the barbarous Latin cupa. Budeus deduces it from the Greek κύπαρις, a sort of cup.