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Webster 1913 Edition
epergne
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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)
- 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 […].
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 80: