parting cup
Example Sentences
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The lateness of the hour warns us that we must be moving, so after a parting cup with our host and his family, we remount our steeds, and turn homewards.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
A smaller parting cup should be used; the A size is suitable.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
A parting cup or glass, drank on horseback by the person taking leave.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Stirrup Cup, a "parting cup" given by the Highlanders to guests when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
Gratian.—Well, then, that must be our parting cup for the night, and a pretty good "night-cap" it is.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
