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Webster 1913 Edition
Cellaret
Celˊlar-et′
,Noun.
[Dim of
cellar
.] A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
Definition 2024
cellaret
cellaret
English
Noun
cellaret (plural cellarets)
- A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
- 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:
- "The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar."
References
- cellaret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913