carafe
noun/kəˈræf/
/kəˈræf/
- a glass container with a wide neck in which wine or water is served at meals; the amount contained in a carafe
- I poured myself some water from the carafe on the table.
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Italian caraffa, probably based on Arabic g̣arafa ‘draw water’.Definitions on the go
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