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cruet

[ UK /kɹˈuːt/ ]
NOUN
  1. bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table

How To Use cruet In A Sentence

  • It's the reverse of birthdays, this laying out outside the meats and cheese, cruets of oil standing sentry at the table and each guest barely able to breathe in the funerary wreaths of citronella haze.
  • He also worked on virtually every form of vessel, large and small, from salts and cruets to beakers to candelabra, and from tureens to rose water sprinklers.
  • A kind of cruet is recorded among early French table silver, "a double necked bottle in divisions, in which to place two kinds of liquor without mixing them. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
  • These items included decanters, beakers, essence-bottles, cruets, wash-hand bowls, sweetmeat saucers, epergnes, vases, lemonade cups, ‘gugglets’, and ‘four elegant cut candlesticks enamel'd mosaik work very rich’.
  • Any restaurant can invest in new cruet sets, a serious steak grill – the must-have accessory in London's high-end kitchens these days – or enough crisp linen to wrap the Reichstag. Restaurant review: 34
  • The sacristians Sr. Cecelia and Sr were in the sacristy to see all was in order, vestments laid out, candles lit, cruets filled with water and wine.
  • You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness becomes irremediable. The Book of Snobs
  • George lunged for the cruet set; Melanie for the butter dish; Nat was frantically hoarding toothpicks.
  • Mix in a cruet and shake until frothy but not whipped. RECIPES FROM GINNY BATES
  • Georgi took away the empty bowls, replaced them with plates of what looked to Helen like homemade ravioli, and set a plastic tray in the middle of the table: butter, pepper, a cruet of vinegar. Venom
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