salt cellar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈsalt ˌcellar noun [countable] British English DFUa small container for salt 小盐瓶 SYN American English salt shaker
Examples from the Corpus
salt cellar• A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table, which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silver salt cellar.• His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.• Later, in the café, we put the flag into the salt cellar and waited.• A sign of taking too much salt is if you find it difficult to remove the salt cellar from the table.• Guido continued to watch her, toying with the salt cellar, his long tanned fingers very dark against the white cloth.Origin salt cellar (1400-1500) cellar from Old French salliere, from Latin salarium, from sal “salt”ˈsalt ˌcellar nounChineseSyllable
a container for small Corpus salt
salt cellar
ˈsalt ˌcellar
noun [countable] British English
SYN salt shaker American English
ˈsalt ˌcellar
noun [countable] British English Date: 1400-1500
Origin: cellar from Old French salliere, from Latin salarium, from sal 'salt'
a small container for salt Origin: cellar from Old French salliere, from Latin salarium, from sal 'salt'
SYN salt shaker American English
