"drinking-cup" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From drinking + cup. Compare Old English drenccuppe (“drinking-cup”).",
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      "form": "drinking-cups",
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          "ref": "2015, A.J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down",
          "text": "He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection",
          "text": "He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Ward Rutherford, Celtic Mythology",
          "text": "Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Edward Breck, The Way Of The Woods",
          "text": "A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, James E. Harding, The Love of David and Jonathan",
          "text": "If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.",
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        "A cup for drinking"
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        {
          "word": "drinking cup"
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  "word": "drinking-cup"
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  "etymology_text": "From drinking + cup. Compare Old English drenccuppe (“drinking-cup”).",
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          "ref": "2015, A.J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down",
          "text": "He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.",
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          "ref": "2015, John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection",
          "text": "He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]",
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        "A cup for drinking"
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    {
      "word": "drinking cup"
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