cellaret

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English

Etymology

From cellar +‎ -et.

Noun

cellaret (plural cellarets)

  1. A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314:
      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.
    • 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:
      The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.

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