cellaret

English

Etymology

cellar +‎ -et

Noun

cellaret (plural cellarets)

  1. A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
    • 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:
      The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.

References
  • cellaret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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