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A tiny pedestal for breakfast's most fragile celebrity, demanding ceremony from a wobbling orb.
means A small cup-shaped holder designed to support a boiled egg upright while you eat it from the shell.
from A plain English compound, simply 'egg' plus 'cup' — the egg being from Old Norse 'egg' (which gradually replaced the native Old English 'ǣg'), and 'cup' from Old English 'cuppe', borrowed from Latin 'cuppa', a drinking vessel. The object itself rose to prominence as soft-boiled eggs became a fashionable table ritual, and the language simply named the thing for what it does: a cup that cradles an egg.
- ancient roots
- Egg cups survive from Roman Pompeii's ruins
- royal habit
- Faberge crafted egg cups for tsars
- big vs small
- Britain wars over cracking eggs from which end
- collector word
- Pocillovy is the hobby of egg cup collecting
- shape rule
- Boiled-egg etiquette spawned centuries of design debate
royal albert egg cup — english porcelain manufacturer, produced since 1901 with chintz floral patterns
lenox presidential egg cup — american fine china company, created egg cups for white house dining