porringer

• It is evident that the phrase in which we see the earliest friars sometimes sharing the repast of the sisters and eating from their porringer is not a later interpolation. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
• Beaucoup moins deuez vous lecher les doigts principalement les succant auec grand bruit It is ill-bred to stoop too close to one's porringer or the meat It suffices to bend a little when conveying a soaked morsel to one's mouth, in order to avoid soiling oneself, then straighten up again. —  George Washington's Rules of Civility
• The poet Swift says The porringers that in a row Hung high and made a glittering show It should be stated that the word porringer, as used by English collectors, usually refers to a deep cup with a cover and two handles, while what we call porringers are known to these collectors as bleeding-basins or tasters. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• The haberdasher presented a cap, saying, "Here is the cap your worship bespoke;" on which Petruchio began to storm afresh, saying the cap was moulded in a porringer, and that it was no bigger than a cockle or walnut shell, desiring the haberdasher to take it away and make it bigger. —  Tales from Shakespeare
• On the coping of the Orchard-wall, which I could reach by climbing, or still more easily if Father Andreas would set-up the pruning-ladder, my porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

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