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GOBLET

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOBLET  , a large type of drinking-

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vessel, particularly one shaped like a
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cup, without handles, and mounted on a shank with a
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foot . The word is derived from the 0 . Fr. gobelet, diminutive of
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gobel, gobeau, which
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Skeat takes to be formed from
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Low
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Lat. cupellus, cup, diminutive of cupa, tub, cask (see DRINKING- VESSELS) .

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