epergne

• A large epergne, studded with lit beeswax candles, dominated its center. —  FSF,January2008
• One woman on Saturday had Williams appraise a large cupid-adorned epergne centerpiece with some significant damage.
• This was it that elicited the anxious self-asked interrogatories After giving utterance to them, she paced backward and forward; now standing in the portal and gazing along the road; now returning to the sola de comida_, to look upon the table, with cloth spread, wines decantered, fruits and flowers on the epergne--all but the dishes that waited serving till Valerian should show himself To look on something besides--a portrait that hung upon the wall, underneath her own. —  The Lone Ranche
• Nothing would have been more difficult than to explain why it was that Pansey Cottrell should be as essential to a fashionable dinner party as the epergne. —  Belles and Ringers
• Everybody else was doing exactly what everybody pleased, when Mrs. Applebite's uncle John emerged from behind an epergne, and vociferously commanded everybody to charge their glasses; a requisition which nobody was bold enough to dispute. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

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