Drinking-horn Definition

noun
A drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
Wiktionary

(chiefly historical) A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.

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Other Word Forms of Drinking-horn

Noun

Singular:
drinking-horn
Plural:
drinking-horns

Drinking-horn Sentence Examples

  • It was usually a youthful figure, dressed in a short, high-girt tunic, holding in one hand a rhyton (drinking-horn), in the other a patera (cup).

  • It contains the chronological collection of Danish monarchs, including a coin and medal cabinet, a fine collection of Venetian glass, the famous silver drinking-horn of Oldenburg (1474), the regalia and other objects of interest as illustrating the history of Denmark.

  • In the second specimen there is no large disk, and the figure is holding up what is apparently a rhyton or drinking-horn.

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Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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