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winepot en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wyne-potte, wynpot, equivalent to wine + pot.

Meanings

1. A pot for holding wine.
   • These kilns were being used to fire porcelain winepots. 1939 June, W. J. Sutton, “W. J. Sutton Writes from Foochow, China”, in The Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, volume 18, number 6, page 234:
   • They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots. 1950, Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, New York, N.Y.: Gramercy Publishing Company, page 18:
   • In the temples, wine was heated in small antique winepots of charmingly engraved bronze and served with elaborate courtesy by men whose every movement betokened an inner harmony of spirit coupled with the utmost grace of body and limbs. 1972, John Blofeld, The Wheel of Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist, London: Rider & Company, →ISBN, page 195:

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