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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]goblet (plural goblets)
- A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
- sup wine from a goblet
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
- At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.
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[edit]drinking vessel with a foot and stem
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