goblet
noun/ˈɡɒblət/
Etymology From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).
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A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
- sup wine from a goblet
- No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward. No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:
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- At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
- Synonyms
- chalice
- Derived terms
- goblet cell, goblet drum, gobleted, gobletful, gobletlike, goblet squat, goblet worm