carafe
Noun
Meaning
A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.
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During happy hour, Sapporo pitchers are $8, 12 oz. Asahi beers are $3, and warm sake is $5 per carafe.
Ideal for accompanying your Thanksgiving dinner, this mini candlelit carafe also serves melted butter, au jus, maple syrup, hot fudge, and other delicious toppings with utmost finesse.
“Buy a carafe of red wine, listen to the sultry jazz music and revel in the sheer Parisianness of it all.”
The word’s association with coffee began in the early 20th century, when the says “carafe” came to mean “an insulated jug for serving beverages, esp. coffee; (hence, also) such a jug which is an integral part of a coffee-making apparatus.”
We were sitting in a homey Korean restaurant in NDG, I’d just ordered the ginseng wine, served warm in a small ceramic carafe, poured into a cup barely larger than a thimble.
I took a look inside the blender's carafe and discovered I had whipped the cream to stiff peaks.