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a pitcher with delusions of grandeur and zero handle to back them up
means A bottle or open-topped glass container, usually without a handle, used for serving water or wine at the table.
from Borrowed from French 'carafe', which came from Italian 'caraffa', likely by way of Spanish or Sicilian — and the trail runs further back to Arabic 'gharrāfa', a vessel for drawing or pouring water (related to the verb 'gharafa', to ladle or scoop). So this handle-less object carries, beneath its airs, a humble job description: it was named for the act of dipping out water.
- name origin
- From Arabic gharafa, meaning to scoop or ladle
- wine ritual
- Decants without the snobbery of a crystal decanter
- no handle
- Designed to grip the body, not a loop
- diner staple
- Holds your bottomless coffee for refilling marathons
riedel sommelier series — austrian glassmaker's collection of 10+ hand-blown wine decanters designed for specific grape varieties since 1973
baccarat harcourt carafe — french crystal decanter created in 1841, still produced and used in the élysée palace for official state dinners