stirrup-cup

But it's not all sausage rolls and stirrup cups.

'They were all drinking some stirrup cup or other, you said.'

Not just the one stirrup cup I saw her take.

We drink what was once called the stirrup cup, a salute to your long journey.

A stirrup cup is a "parting cup" given to guests, especially when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups.

He had come, he said, to drink a stirrup cup with his English friends, whom he would never see again.

"Then it'll make an excellent stirrup cup when we go on leave on Sexburga," he said.

And along with their stirrup cups, they were all eating humble pie.

So they brought him a stirrup cup filled with a mixture of that day's alcoholic beverages.

That very night, as Chu was taking a stirrup cup before going to bed, the ghost of the awful judge came to the door and entered.