standing cup

noun

1. a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.

Example Sentences

‘Johnny Tremain, alias Jonathan Lyte Tremain ... apprentice to Ephraim Lapham ... name of King and Bay Colony... standing cup ... taken away the twenty-third day... month ... year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.’

From Literature

The baby Bess, like babies nowadays, had her christening presents: "By the queen's majesty a great standing cup; Countess of Sussex a standing cup; Earl of Leicester a great bowl."

From Project Gutenberg

The word “hanap” is translated by Cotgrave in his French dictionary of 1660 as “a drinking cup or goblet,” and probably was intended to mean what would be called a standing cup, that is, raised on a foot, to distinguish it from a bowl of the mazer class.

From Project Gutenberg

He left to the Merchant Taylors his best standing cup, "in friendly remembrance of him for ever."

From Project Gutenberg

He left £100 to dower poor maidens, and his best "standing cup" to his brethren, the Merchant Taylors.

From Project Gutenberg