liqueur glass
- noun
- /lɪˈkɜr ˌɡlæs/
:
copa de licor
- The waiter served a small amount of dessert wine in a liqueur glass after our meal.
Examples
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Marko vanished in the direction of the bar and returned promptly with a liqueur glass holding four inches of brown fluid.
Fiction book (1999) -
A liqueur glass sat there.
Fiction book (1998) -
She had her hands folded under her chin and was waiting in mute prayer in front of a full liqueur glass.
Fiction book (2002) -
We enjoyed a rich chocolate liqueur poured into elegant liqueur glasses at the end of the dinner party.
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He raised his liqueur glass in a toast, celebrating the end of a wonderful evening.
Synonyms
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1.8
A small glass that holds one small drink of strong alcohol like whiskey or tequila
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9.9
A small tulip-shaped glass for serving sherry or a small drink of sherry
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Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'liqueur' (a sweet alcoholic drink) + 'glass' (a drinking vessel), so its meaning — a glass used to serve liqueur — is directly derivable from the constituents. This noun+noun composition is a common, literal naming pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it without prior exposure.
Etymology
Liqueur glass comes from the simple idea of a very small, delicate glass for a little sweet drink called a liqueur that people sip after a meal. So today it means 'a small glass used to serve a small amount of liqueur after dinner'.