The Collaborative International Dictionary
Egg-cup
Egg-cup \Egg"-cup`\, n. A cup used for holding an egg, at table.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.