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A decanter is a glass bottle, often wide at the bottom and with a , used to hold and serve wine, whisky, or other drinks at the table. You pour the drink from its shop bottle into the decanter, then pour from the decanter into glasses. It is a serving thing, a little fancy and old-world — not the dusty bottle you hide in a for years, though people do leave whisky in one. A sits in the same family of “nice bottles for the table,” but a is often for water or house wine and may have no .
醒酒瓶
組成From decant + -er. The -er here means “a thing used for that action”: the bottle you decant into (and then pour from).
同家族的字
- decantthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
decanternoun/dɪˈkæntə(ɹ)/
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A vessel for decanting liquor.
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A receptacle for decanted liquor, especially a crystal bottle with a stopper.
- Pour wine into the decanter, and cork. Let the decanter down, drawing the loops out and laying them on the table top. Have a tray of small glasses alongside the decanter. When ready to introduce the experiment, step to the table, remove the glass stopper, pick up the decanter with the right hand and pour the wine into the glasses on the tray.
- A decanter filled with smoke from smouldering incense.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。