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saltcellar

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salt·cel·lar  (sôltslr)
n.
A small dish for holding and dispensing salt.

[Alteration of Middle English salt-saler : salt, salt; see salt + saler, saltcellar (from Old French saliere, from Medieval Latin salria, from Latin, feminine of salrius, of salt, from sl, sal-, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots).]

saltcellar [ˈsɔːltˌsɛlə]
n
1. (Cookery) a small container for salt used at the table
2. Brit informal either of the two hollows formed above the collarbones of very slim people
[changed (through influence of cellar) from C15 salt saler; saler from Old French saliere container for salt, from Latin salārius belonging to salt, from sal salt]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.saltcellar - a small container for holding salt at the dining table
container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
Translations
saltcellar [ˈsɔːltˌseləʳ] Nsalero m
saltcellar
nSalzfässchen nt; (= shaker)Salzstreuer m
saltcellar [ˈsɔːltˌsɛləʳ] salt shaker (Am) nsaliera


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There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a caster of state.
Bella, as the acknowledged ornament of the family, employed both her hands in giving her hair an additional wave while sitting in the easiest chair, and occasionally threw in a direction touching the supper: as, 'Very brown, ma;' or, to her sister, 'Put the saltcellar straight, miss, and don't be a dowdy little puss.
 
 
 
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