leaf cupn.
/ˈliːf kʌp/, U.S. /ˈlif ˌkəp/ 1. Originally: (perhaps) a cup shaped like a leaf. In later use: a leaf folded and used as a cup, esp. in Asia.
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1716 London Gaz. No. 5409/3 A Leaf Cup without a Cover.
1800 Brit. Critic 7 Before him was a small painted bench, to place his leaf-cup on.
1853 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 3 29 Having offered the golden cup with the same feelings with which she would have offered it, had it been only a leaf-cup, she returned home.
1901 R. Kipling Kim x. 263 He bought sweetmeats in a leaf-cup from a Hindu trader.
1960 F. G. Bailey Tribe, Caste, & Nation ii. vii. 160 (caption) A Kond woman making leaf cups.
2005 S. C. Roy in U. Sharma Marriage in Indian Society I. xxvi. 302 A man of each gotra or clan takes a leaf-cup in his hands, [and] a little of the liquor is poured into each leaf-cup.
2. Any of several plants of the American genus Polymnia (family Asteraceae), having each flower head in a cup of leaf-like scales; esp. (more fully white-flowered leaf cup) P. canadensis of eastern North America, a large perennial with lobed leaves (also called bear's-foot).
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1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 96 Polymnia..canadensis, (leaf-cup) leaves denticulate, lower ones pinnatifid.
1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. Bear's-foot, leaf cup. A popular remedy for enlargement of the spleen, or the ‘ague-cake’ of malarious regions.
1973 A. R. Hutchens Indian Herbalogy N. Amer. (1991) 31 Bear's Foot. Polymnia uvedalia, L. Common Names: Leafcup, Balsam resin, Yellow leafcup, Uvedalia.
2012 Jrnl. Orthoptera Res. 21 228/1 The understory is typically a dense stand of aromatic sumac (Rhus aromatica), Carolina buckthorn.., and/or white flowered leaf cup.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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