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Synonyms for cruet


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kroo-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkru ɪt

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Définition of cruet

Origin :
  • "small glass bottle for vinegar, oil, etc.," c.1300, Anglo-French diminutive of Old French crue "an earthen pot," from Frankish *kruka or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German kruog); related to crock.
  • As in jar : noun container
  • As in jug : noun container for liquid
  • As in pitcher : noun jug
  • As in bottle : noun container, usually for liquids
  • As in decanter : noun vessel
  • As in flask : noun small container for liquid
Example sentences :
  • But I speak of the cruet sauces, where the quintessence of the sapid is condensed in a phial.
  • Extract from : « Crotchet Castle » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • They'd mix about as well as a cruet of vinegar and a313 pail of lard.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe on the Job » by Sewell Ford
  • A small quantity may be kept in a cruet; retaining the leaves at the bottom.
  • Extract from : « Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book » by Eliza Leslie
  • His eyes fell upon the cruet which contained the consecrated oil.
  • Extract from : « Robert Annys: Poor Priest » by Annie Nathan Meyer
  • Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.
  • Extract from : « Funny Stories Told By The Soldiers » by Carleton B. Case
  • Without answering, she took the cruet from the sideboard and set it on the table.
  • Extract from : « The White Peacock » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
  • Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych.
  • Extract from : « Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England » by Edward L. Cutts
  • It all ended in his dropping a little oil from a cruet on a large pond at Clapham.
  • Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) » by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
  • Crevet, krev′et, n. a variant of Cruet, a goldsmith's melting-pot.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • The servants placed before her a cruet of vinegar, and she put into it one of the pearls which were appended to her ears.
  • Extract from : « Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus » by William MacGillivray
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