Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A buttercup: usually in the plural. Also gil-cup, gilt-cup, and gilty-cup.
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Examples
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The regiment being destitute of ammunition, it was formed in front of a house occupied as an arsenal, where each man received a gill-cup full of powder, fifteen balls, and one flint.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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My brain has become the very lowlands of Holland -- a gill-cup would inundate it -- Hark thee, fellow, "he added, addressing Lance," keep my counsel -- there is a wager betwixt
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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My brain has become the very lowlands of Holland — a gill-cup would inundate it — Hark thee, fellow,” he added, addressing Lance, “keep my counsel — there is a wager betwixt Lord Saville and me, which of us shall first have a letter in London.
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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