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English
Etymology
From Old French .
Pronunciation
Noun
voidee (plural voidees)
- (now only historical) A cup of wine drunk with spices or other small accompaniments, taken before retiring to bed or before the departure of guests; also, a larger snack or small meal taken in similar circumstances.
- a. 1826, notes to Ann Ward Radcliffe’s Gaston de Blondeville, in The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Radcliffe, Volume III, Henry Colburn (publisher, 1826), page 83:
- Before the voidee, came in five score couple, Earles, Barons, and Knights, over and besides Squiers, having collers and chains of gould, every each of them throughout, bearing the one of them a spice-plate, the other a cuppe, beside yeomen of the guard that followed them with potts of wine to fill the cuppes. The spice-plates were furnished in the most goodly manner with spices, after the manner of a voidee; and the cuppes were replenished with wine, and universally throughout the said hall distributed.
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