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Wassail bowl

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a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table.

See also: Wassail



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The 17th century wassail bowls made of beautiful lignum vitae stood proud on the side tables in the main banqueting hall, which now some 400 years later has become the entertaining lounge.
A wassail bowl, often as big as a cauldron, is filled with a mixture of cider, brandy, ale, spice and drunk hot.
So many old English things, often with names that need dictionaries: heraldic plates, Staffordshire busts of Nelson, wassail bowls, goblets, tankards, sconces, tasses, pikes, sears.
 
 
 
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