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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

... in the saloon and formed a committee among themselves to collect subscriptions for a general fund, out of which it was resolved by vote to provide as far as possible for the destitute among the steerage passengers, to present a loving cup to Captain Rostron and medals to the officers and crew of the Carpathia, and to divide any surplus among the crew of the Titanic. The work of this committee is not yet (June 1st) at an end, but all the resolutions except the last one have been ...

— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley

... 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

... 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 ...

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

... folks come to call on me, I've no such things for them to see. No picture on my walls is great; I have no ancient family plate; No tapestry of rare design Or costly woven rugs are mine; I have no loving cup to show, Or strange and valued curio; But if my treasures they would see, I bid them ...

— A Heap o' Livin' • Edgar A. Guest

... 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