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单词 cruet
释义

cruet

/ˈkruːɪt /
noun
1A small container or set of containers for salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar for use at a dining table.‘I've got my eye on a salt and pepper cruet set - they're only £18,’ she said....
  • He also worked on virtually every form of vessel, large and small, from salts and cruets to beakers to candelabra, and from tureens to rose water sprinklers.
  • These items included decanters, beakers, essence-bottles, cruets, wash-hand bowls, sweetmeat saucers, epergnes, vases, lemonade cups, ‘gugglets’, and ‘four elegant cut candlesticks enamel'd mosaik work very rich’.
2(In church use) a small container for the wine or water to be used in the celebration of the Eucharist.I took the finger towel and glass cruets of water and wine to the credence table at the right of the altar and put out the bell on the step where I would be kneeling at the consecration....
  • The sacristians were in the sacristy to see all was in order, vestments laid out, candles lit, cruets filled with water and wine.
  • A table by the bedside, covered in a clean white cloth, held two lighted blessed candles, a crucifix, a cruet of holy water and a sprinkler.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2): from Anglo-Norman French, diminutive of Old French crue 'pot', from Old Saxon krūka; related to crock1.

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