cellaret

English

Etymology

cellar +‎ -et

Noun

cellaret (plural cellarets)

1. A deep, often metal-lined drawer in a sideboard used for storing wines and liquors.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 314:

     I sipped at some rot-gut Lisbon, which with much ceremony he himself took from a cellaret that stood in the corner of the room, the bottle not being half-full.

   • 2007, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans., War and Peace, Vintage Classics, page 349:

     The agile old servant opened the cellaret, prepared the tea table, and brought a boiling samovar.

References

• “cellaret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cretella, allecret, call tree