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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as posset-cup.

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Examples

  • The Howitt family was much less strict than that of the Bothams, for in the winter evenings the boys were allowed to play draughts and dominoes, while at Christmas there were games of forfeits, blind-man's buff, and fishing for the ring in the great posset-pot.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • It is a serviceable posset-pot, with a silver tip and lid, both of which are gilded, the cover, still playing faithfully on its hinge, being chased with the device of Adam and Eve in the garden partaking of the forbidden fruit.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

  • The Howitt family was much less strict than that of the Bothams, for in the winter evenings the boys were allowed to play draughts and dominoes, while at Christmas there were games of forfeits, blind-man's buff, and fishing for the ring in the great posset-pot.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • A psalm preceding and a prayer following a Puritan posset-pot made a satisfactorily solemn wassail.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

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