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DECANTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water
Synonyms:
carafe; decanter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("decanter" is a kind of...):
bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)
Derivation:
decant (pour out)
Context examples:
The decanter of sherry was on the table half full, but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Other things being equal, said Holmes, one would suspect the one at whose head the master threw a decanter.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If the thought that I may die and leave my darling, or that my darling may die and leave me, comes like a spectre, to distress my happiest hours, and is only to be drowned in— He did not supply the word; but pacing slowly to the place where he had sat, and mechanically going through the action of pouring wine from the empty decanter, set it down and paced back again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He flew and returned with a glass, the decanter of brandy and a carafe of water.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The very air of the best parlour, when I went in at the door, the bright condition of the fire, the shining of the wine in the decanters, the patterns of the glasses and plates, the faint sweet smell of cake, the odour of Miss Murdstone's dress, and our black clothes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While he was so engaged, he asked me what I would take with it; and on my replying Half a pint of sherry, thought it a favourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure of wine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several small decanters.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When the evening was pretty far spent, and a tray of glasses and decanters came in, Steerforth promised, over the fire, that he would seriously think of going down into the country with me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I remained, therefore, in a state of considerable expectation until the cloth had been removed some half an hour, and we were sitting over our decanter of wine before the fire, when the door opened, and Littimer, with his habitual serenity quite undisturbed, announced: Miss Mowcher!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
