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Webster 1913 Edition


epergne


Éˊpergne′

,
Noun.
[F.
épargne
a sparing or saving; a treasury. “Our épergne is a little
treasury
of sweetmeats, fruits, and flowers.”
Brewer.
]
A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

Definition 2024


épergne

épergne

See also: epergne

English

Noun

épergne (plural épergnes)

  1. A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 80:
      They made there, on the breakfast-table, a patch, as it were, of mosaic among the silver chafing dishes, silver épergnes filled with peaches in pyramids, and great silver rose-bowls […].