epergne

How To Use epergne In A Sentence

• Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
• The consignment consisted of costly goods, including epergnes, table and dessert services and ornamental figures.
• Other times, it is merely the exact word for a thing that sticks in the mind: instead of using the word “centerpiece,” one might say “epergne.” Tourbillon : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• 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’.
• “It is not such a dinner as you have seen at her house, with six side-dishes, two flanks, that splendid epergne, and the silver dishes top and bottom; but such as my Rosa has she offers with a willing heart,” cries the Campaigner. The Newcomes
• Epergne, perhaps _épargne_, a save-all or hold-all. Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850
• Cheapside, having invested some money in two desks, several pairs of richly-plated candlesticks, a dinner epergne, and a bagatelle-board. The History of Pendennis
• The epergne was a beautiful thing of crystal and gold, a celebrated work of art, regarded as an exquisite possession. T. Tembarom
• The dinner epergne remained at chambers, and figured at the banquets there, which the Colonel gave pretty freely. The History of Pendennis
• A pair of candelabra stood either side of the epergne, their light setting the five or six crystal decanters and the silver serving dishes aglitter. Soul