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Egg-cup

Egg-cup \Egg"-cup`\, n. A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
egg-cup

1773, from egg (n.) + cup (n.).

Usage examples of "egg-cup".

Mason describes the case of a man of sixty-five who, after death by strangulated hernia, was opened, and two inches from the ileocecal valve was found an earthen egg-cup which he had swallowed.

She still stood pouting and frowning at me, but presently put down her egg-cup and turned softly towards the bed where Ada lay.