mazer
/mey-zer/US // ˈmeɪ zər //UK // (ˈmeɪzə) //
马泽尔,马泽,马兹尔,马扎尔
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.
Examples
The connection between mazers and magic is not obvious, but in 1501 when John Richardson, a parish clerk, lost a mazer worth 26s.
The Mazer continued in use to the seventeenth century, when it was still a favourite with the humbler classes.
Now drink we, quod he, of this mazer and quaff ye this mead which is not indeed parcel of my body but my soul's bodiment.
I give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Wellyfed 40, three goblets without a cover, a mazer, and a nut.
Spenser speaks in his Shepheard's Calendar of "a mazer yrought of the maple wood."
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