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A shallow drinking cup with two handles
Answer for the clue "A shallow drinking cup with two handles ", 5 letters:
kylix
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kylix may mean: Kylix (gastropod) , a genus of snails in the family Drilliidae . Kylix (drinking cup) , a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece Kylix (software) , a programming tool
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece [syn: cylix ] [also: kylikes (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Greek kylix "cup," cognate with Latin calix , from PIE root *kal- (1) "cup" (see chalice ).
Usage examples of kylix.
Charles Ward - all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
He turned from the inscriptions to face the room with its bizarre contents, and saw that the kylix on the floor, in which the ominous efflorescent powder had lain, was giving forth a cloud of thick, greenish-black vapour of surprising volume and opacity.
There was nothing to relate beyond the looming up of that form when the greenish-black vapour from the kylix parted, and Willett was too tired to ask himself what had really occurred.
Charles Ward--all these engulfed the doctor in a tidal wave of horror as he looked at that dry greenish powder outspread in the pedestalled leaden kylix on the floor.
There was a rhyton in the form of a human head, a black-figure kylix on one side, a small red-figure amphora on the other.
Beneath the lid was enacted, in Boucheresque eighteenth-century terms, exactly the same scene as some ancient Greek had painted in the kylix two thousand years before.
The jugs and kylixes were appropriate to the time, but that door, sliding into a tightly lasered seam, was not.
The jugs and kylixes were appropriate to the time, but that door, sliding into a tightly lasered seam, was not.