How To Use cellaret In A Sentence
- The room was carpeted, and there was a sofa in it, though a very old one, and two arm-chairs and a mahogany office-table, and a cellaret, which was generally well supplied with wine which Dobbs Broughton did not get out of the vaults of his neighbours, Burton and Bangles. The Last Chronicle of Barset
- The cellaret is a tin vessel, in which ices are kept for a short time from dissolving. The Book of Household Management
- She unlocked the cellaret and stood for a moment with the bottle and glass pressed to her bosom. Gone with the Wind
- Lavinia rose and walked toward an octagonal cellaret; opening the lid, she took out a decanter of sherry and two glasses. Soul
- There was the old cellaret with nothing in it, lined with lead, like a sort of coffin in compartments; there was the old dark closet, also with nothing in it, of which he had been many a time the sole contents, in days of punishment, when he had regarded it as the veritable entrance to that bourne to which the tract had found him galloping. Little Dorrit
- Under the sideboard stands a cellaret that looks as if it held half a bottle of currant wine, and a shivering plate-warmer that never could get any comfort out of the wretched old cramped grate yonder. Mens Wives
- Today examples are frequently referred to as cellarets, but period inventories list them as gin cases, brandy cases, bottle cases, or cases of bottles.
- Hepplewhite wrote that cellarets were ‘generally made of mahogany, and hooped with brass hoops lacquered; the inner part is divided into partitions, and lined with lead for bottles.
- Sideboards, too, often had cellarets (boxes in which wine bottles could reach room temperature) and wine coolers incorporated in cupboards and drawers.
- Joseph Freeman, one of the South's best-documented early craftsmen, produced the bottle case, or cellaret.
