salvers

• The salvers are small silver plates, each bearing the club's insignia. —  The Word Detective
• When you really stop to think about just what's involved in the catalog's obtaining those salvers, the price doesn't seem so unreasonable. —  The Word Detective
• Of course, the whole point of salvers is to make someone feel special, whether a household pet or a doddering London club member being served his brandy on one. —  The Word Detective
• You sometimes hear that salvers are so named because they "save" one's clothes or carpet from spills, but the actual derivation is slightly more dramatic than that. —  The Word Detective
• For there be many mountebanks, quack-salvers and empiricks, in every street almost, and in every village, that take upon them this name, and make this noble and profitable art to be evil spoken of and contemned by reason of these base and illiterate artificers Many of them to get a fee, will give physick to every one that comes, without cause That original genius, Daniel Defoe (1661-1731), in his "Description of a Quack Doctor," wrote that sometimes he would employ the most vulgar phrases imaginable, and again he would soar out of sight and traverse the spacious realms of fustian and bombast. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

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