Meaning

A cruet (small container for holding a condiment, or for holding water or wine for the Eucharist)..

Example Sentences

[…] Altar-Services; and among others, one made of Chrystal; Candlesticks, Crevets, a Bason and Eure, and the Foot of a Chalice, all of Amber.

The Inventory of the Estate of Daniel Malthie Late of Branford, Dec'd, taken and apprised by Samuel Harrington and Samuel Stent, February ye 4th, 1731-2: […] one brass Kittle, £3; one brass Kittle, £7 . . 10 0 0 one box Iron and Heeters, 7s; one Crevet, 1s 0 8 0 one brass candlestick, 4s; one Iron candle-stick, 2s […]

2 wooden paste rolers—2 Chopping Knives 6 Iron Crevets—3 tin tart moulds—5 Kitchen apperns 1 old Brass Kettle—1 Iron Candle stick

"Oliver Cromwell at Hampton Court", After the return of Charles II. an aspirant for royal notice published a book, which he called "The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwell," in which he charged "Joan" with being niggardly in the details of her table; but this inventory tends to dissipate the slander, because it shows her to have possessed a very extensive collection of kitchen utensils and appliances : copper pots and pans, iron crevets, brass pots, scummers of brass, “moulds or pattipans,” abound. In the scullery were pewter dishes of five several sizes, while the trencher plates are numbered by dozens.

[…] and on the sepulchre next the high altar there, on high days; and to the same likewise her vestment of green velvet embroidered, with its appurtenances, a chalice, two crevets, a bell, and a paxbrede, all of silver, […]

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• crevets

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