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cellaret en · NOUN

Etymology

From cellar + -et.

Meanings

1. A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
   • The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar. 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349
   • I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314

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