parting cup
Example Sentences
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On all sides the recruits were stopped by their friends, who came to shake hands or to share a parting cup.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
A smaller parting cup should be used; the A size is suitable.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
The saké cup was offered, and they partook of it as they hummed, "In our parting cup, the tears of sadness fall."
From Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Wilson, Epiphanius
Some thrust out their snuff-mulls for the parting pinch—others tendered the doch-an-dorrach, or parting cup.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various
They drank a parting cup, then separated, while the king took Elfric's arm and led him aside.
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
