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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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salt-cellar
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tags: [garniture]
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Definition:a small dish that contains salt, once commonly used before anti-caking agents were added to table salt in the early 20th century.
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my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt-cellars.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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One morning I happened to turn over the salt-cellar at breakfast. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn.
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She'd get mad and hit me if I crossed her or sassed her, and I'd do meany things to her, like tripping her up or putting sugar in her salt cellar.
Olive Ann Burns. Cold Sassy Tree, p.103 (1984)
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we dined in the best parlor, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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plucking up courage, I seized a salt-cellar which lay within reach, and hurled it at the head of the intruder.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Angel of the Odd (1844)
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