decanter

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A muttered curse and the gurgling of liquor from a decanter was all that could be heard for the space of a few-moments, when the two, after a brief whisper, arose and left the place, not, however, without making ineffectual efforts to catch a glimpse of the occupant of the tenanted alcove.

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  1. noun A vessel used for decanting, especially a decorative bottle used for serving wine.

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  • Beside the decanter was a morning newspaper that was almost two days out of date. —  Mary Balogh - Heartless
  • He fetched out another decanter, and forced him to drink that one, too, and then a third and a fourth. —  EBSCOhost
  • The Sunday papers were on his stomach and the decanter was at his side. —  Dancers in Mourning - Margery Allingham - Campion 09 -1937
  • He touched the stopper of the decanter, and Inspector Badger ostentatiously consulted his watch Time is running on, I fear," said Mr. Jellicoe It is, indeed," Badger assented emphatically Well, I need not detain you long," said the lawyer. —  The Eye of Osiris
  • "I thought you'd like to sup them before you ate the meat Neal poured the wine into an old cut-glass decanter, and set Maconchy's bottle of whisky, distilled, no doubt, by Maconchy himself among the Rathlin Hills, beside his father's plate Micah Ward said a long grace, in which he thanked the Almighty for the fish, the ham, the eggs, the porridge, and his brother's return from America. —  The Northern Iron
 

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