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Loving cup

noun

A large drinking vessel (usually with two handles) that people drink out of in turn at a banquet.

A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition. Synonym: cup.

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"Loving cup" Quotes from Famous Books

... that two eminent statesmen have actually dined together; and I am very glad to hear that men engaged in the strife of politics can dine together without personal hostility. I say nothing of the viands that were eaten. I say nothing of the beverage that was in the 'loving cup' that went round. One of our oldest and greatest poets has told ...

— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... brave. Our men are brave and generous and our women are free. You and your noble co-workers stormed the heights of ridicule and prejudice to win this freedom for woman. In behalf of our Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association, I beg you to accept this 'loving cup' of Colorado silver." ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... Tiptoff's return to Salisbury, and had the best view feasible of all the pageants and diversions of autumn. She saw some magnificent processions of clergy, she was welcomed at a civic banquet and drank of the loving cup, and she beheld the Lord Mayor's Show in all its picturesque glory of emblazoned barges on the river. In fact, she found the position of denizen of an alderman's household so very agreeable that she did her best to make it a permanency. Nay, Dennet soon found that she considered ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... miserable coin, or of stinting the measure of their generous wines or foaming ale. They gave not less to the poor because they delighted to honour the brave and good, or to greet one another in the loving cup. Unlike the coldly intellectual reformers and theorists of the present day, they did not consider the gaol and the workhouse as the only asylums for poverty. They were men of feeling and kindly impulse, ...

— The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges • William Ferneley Allen

... ceremony which is of antique date in old English corporations and institutions, at their high festivals. It is called the Loving Cup. A sort of herald or toast-master behind the Warden's chair made proclamation, reciting the names of the principal guests, and announcing to them, "The Warden of the Braithwaite Hospital drinks to you in a Loving Cup"; of which cup, having sipped, or seemed to sip (for Redclyffe observed ...

— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words linked to "Loving cup" : drinking vessel, trophy, cup, prize, Davis Cup