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cellaret

cellaret noun: a deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.

Noun

cellaret (plural cellarets)

  1. A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
    • I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314
    • The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349

Forms of cellaret

pluralcellarets

Origin of cellaret

From cellar + -et.

Questions about cellaret

What does cellaret mean?
Cellaret means a deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
What part of speech is cellaret?
Cellaret is a noun.
What is the plural of cellaret?
The plural of cellaret is cellarets.

Words near cellaret in the dictionary

  1. cellared
  2. cellarer
  3. cellarers
  4. cellaress
  5. cellaresses
  6. cellaret
  7. cellarets
  8. cellarette
  9. cellarettes
  10. cellarful
  11. cellarfuls

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