Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very small drinking-glass intended for liqueurs or cordials; a cordial-glass.
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Examples
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The waiter came back into the room carrying a tray with a big coffee-glass and a liqueur-glass on it.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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She also added a liqueur-glass of brandy to her soothing, encouraging little speeches, but Diana refused the former with a gesture of repugnance, and seemed scarcely to hear the latter.
The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler
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She held out the liqueur-glass towards him, and Paul, in answer to an imperious little nod of the head, which seemed to indicate that he was obeying orders correctly, dropped a square nodule of sugar into it, and looked up with a questioning aspect.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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-- One quart bottle of champagne, two bottles of soda-water, one liqueur-glass of brandy, two tablespoons of powdered sugar, a few thin strips of cucumber rind; make this just in time for use, and add a large piece of ice.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Venetian ware, and a liqueur-glass upon it She had drunk nothing but water throughout the repast, but she now poured out a spoonful of some amber-coloured and highly aromatic liqueur, and, leaning slightly across the table, said, with a marked American-English accent:
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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I was already sleepy, as I had drunk a quantity of champagne, with which the servants had replenished my little liqueur-glass, and I allowed myself at last to be carried away by Jeannie, and fell asleep in her arms.
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She had paled and was fingering her liqueur-glass absently.
Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Chartreuse and a liqueur-glass on the table, drop one drip of the liquid into the glass, burn a stinking pastille of incense, place a Birmingham
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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"Bravo's!" and held out her hand for the liqueur-glass.
Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1907
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Burnaby smiled a pleased smile as she sipped the Benedictine which a footman had poured into a tall green-and-gold Bohemian liqueur-glass for her.
From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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