mazer bowl

English

Noun

mazer bowl (plural mazer bowls)

(historical) A bowl or cup made from a knot of a maple tree and often decorated with silver.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
  […] by his side / A mighty Mazer bowle of wine was set, / As if it had to him bene sacrifide; / Wherewith all new-come guests he gratifide […]

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