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stirrup-cup

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stir·rup-cup (stûrp-kp, str-)
n.
A farewell drink, especially for a rider who is mounted to depart.
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As it is his foot that is in the stirrup--metaphorically--our stirrup-cup is to be devoted to him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
Everybody was as good to me as they could be, and a maid of honor gave me the stirrup-cup her own self.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The baroness pointed, from the window at which they stood, to the courtyard beneath, where the unconscious Lincoln greens were taking a copious stirrup-cup, preparatory to issuing forth after a boar or two.
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