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snuff-horn en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A container for snuff made from an animal's horn.
    • When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:

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