Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book containing details regarding the wines or other liquors received into and given out from a wine-cellar; a book kept by a butler showing the general state of the wine-cellar.
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Examples
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The reason why I did not send the whole at once, was the consideration of the weather, etc.; when this comes safe, the rest shall follow directly, and then according to my cellar-book you will have had in all ten dozen, that is seven dozen and a half now and two dozen and a half before, of that particular wine, and about a dozen of Burgundy.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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The reason why I did not send the whole at once, was the consideration of the weather, etc.; when this comes safe, the rest shall follow directly, and then according to my cellar-book you will have had in all ten dozen, that is seven dozen and a half now and two dozen and a half before, of that particular wine, and about a dozen of Burgundy.
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These and other drinkables are brought from the cellar every day by his own hands, except where an under-butler is kept; and a careful entry of every bottle used, entered in the cellar-book; so that the book should always show the contents of the cellar.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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These and other drinkables are brought from the cellar every day by his own hands, except where an under-butler is kept; and a careful entry of every bottle used, entered in the cellar-book; so that the book should always show the contents of the cellar.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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'I wrote the entry in the cellar-book myself, sir, if you please,' said
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
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Here he checked the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler's cellar-book.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Here he checked the housekeeper’s accounts, and overhauled the butler’s cellar-book.
Vanity Fair 2006
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"I was looking through the cellar-book before dinner," the lawyer went on, "and I see that you still have forty-seven and forty-eight, and a small quantity of two older vintages.
The Great Impersonation Oppenheim, E. Phillips 1920
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"I was looking through the cellar-book before dinner," the lawyer went on, "and I see that you still have forty-seven and forty-eight, and a small quantity of two older vintages.
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