carafe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of carafe
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
“Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.”
“[…]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.”
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noun
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A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
“Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.”
“[…]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.”
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A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
“Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”). Doublet of carboy.
Words you can make from carafe
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