epergne

An epergne may be used to hold any type of food or dessert.

She asked me how I was enjoying the epergne.

He guided her to a sideboard set with a huge epergne.

An epergne generally has a large central "bowl" or basket sitting on three to five feet.

"That epergne is ruining my life," I told my husband.

Flowers filled an epergne in the center.

One feature is an epergne, or large table centerpiece, with covered dishes and a matching platter.

Connie sent an enormous, extravagant silver epergne for our dining table."

Then she gave us the epergne.

Her mother-in-law, pleased, pronounced it as good an epergne as she had seen in years.

In 1866 the British government presented them with a silver epergne in recognition of their benevolent efforts.

On his arrival at Goolwa he was presented with a handsome silver epergne.

Then he crossed into the dining room, where poinsettias were heaped in Connie's great epergne at the center of the table.

The silver epergne on the piano is part of the 1912 set of Tiffany silver.

Mrs. Gaiser saved the epergne from destruction by buying it in 1943.

"The epergne," said the old lady.

In 1792 he was presented with a silver epergne for speaking in favour of the slave trade to a parliamentary committee.

The big silver epergne.

It was at about this time that the epergne, a standing centre-piece with branched supports for the dessert was coming into fashion.

"And," continued her mother-in-law, well back in her own childhood now,"the epergne would have been decorated all over with trailing ivy.

Grey glanced away, toward a massive silver epergne filled with hothouse fruit, then back at Caswell.

The (reproduction) Hepplewhite sideboard held two Sheffield plated candlesticks and an epergne.

What's an epergne?"

She had draped the substitute epergne with ivy and Clare had contrived to hang a little dish of sweetmeats from each branch.

Melissa Bentley was sitting between her two admirers, almost invisible from her husband, and was clearly enjoying herself mightily behind the shelter of the epergne.