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standing cup

noun

  1. a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.


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‘Johnny Tremain, alias Jonathan Lyte Tremain ... apprentice to Ephraim Lapham ... name of King and Bay Colony... standing cup ... taken away the twenty-third day... month ... year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.’

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The baby Bess, like babies nowadays, had her christening presents: "By the queen's majesty a great standing cup; Countess of Sussex a standing cup; Earl of Leicester a great bowl."

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The word “hanap” is translated by Cotgrave in his French dictionary of 1660 as “a drinking cup or goblet,” and probably was intended to mean what would be called a standing cup, that is, raised on a foot, to distinguish it from a bowl of the mazer class.

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He left to the Merchant Taylors his best standing cup, "in friendly remembrance of him for ever."

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He left £100 to dower poor maidens, and his best "standing cup" to his brethren, the Merchant Taylors.

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