parting cup

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Quando dormir partiamos, El Rey dijo, "Te am�mos Antesque al lecho vamos, let us take a parting cup!"

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

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 Nuttall, P. Austin

If you will accept my ruling, we will drink a parting cup, and go home.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

"Well, since you will not be 'of ours,'" said Fran�ois, "let us drink a parting cup, and say good-by, for I hear the bugle sounding the call."

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

Some thrust out their snuff-mulls for the parting pinch, others tendered the DOCH-AN-DORRACH, or parting cup.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir