carafe

[kuh-raf, -rahf]

noun

1. a wide-mouthed glass or metal bottle with a lip or spout, for holding and serving beverages.

carafe

/ -ˈrɑːf, kəˈræf /

noun

1. 1. an open-topped glass container for serving water or wine at table

   2. ( as modifier )

      a carafe wine

Word History and Origins

Origin of carafe¹

1780–90; < French < Italian caraff ( a ) < Spanish garrafa, perhaps < dialectal Arabic gharrāfah dipper, drinking vessel

Word History and Origins

Origin of carafe¹

C18: from French, from Italian caraffa, from Spanish garrafa, from Arabic gharrāfah vessel

Example Sentences

“It’s not about me,” he said before fishing a malaria pill out of his suit pocket and chasing it with borrowed coffee from a nearby carafe.

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“It looks good on a picture, and that’s about it,” Hennessey says, adding that in his own restaurant, he uses larger carafes to smooth out service and keep diners from getting grumpy.

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But the people who bring his family carafes of vodka and fancy tumblers do.

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As they talk and drink carafes of wine, their conversation wrinkles with the private riptides of aggression and jealousy that flow under their relationship.

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For wines, the best deals are the $45-$55 wine bottles; a server will pour the wine into a plastic carafe for you to take back to your seat.

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Related Words

• bag 
• bottle 
• bowl 
• box 
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• packet 
• pail 
• pot 
• pouch 
• sack