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Definition of Quaich
1. Noun. (obsolete) A traditional, shallow, two-handled Scottish cup symbolising friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quaich
1. a small drinking vessel [n -ES or -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaich
Literary usage of Quaich
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Summer in Scotland by Jacob Abbott (1848)
"Ta quaich." A wedding. tween the leaves of our guide-books as souvenirs of ...
They drank from my silver quaich, which the guide admired, saying it was " a ..."
2. Paisley Burns Clubs 1805-1893 by Robert Brown, Roy Collection (1893)
"The staves of the quaich are bound together with hoops made of silver, having on
two sides, at the top of the quaich, a projecting handle also of solid ..."
3. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1838)
"THE quaich—A DRINKING-CUP.— Vol. ii. p. 621. ... My friend Mr. Mackenzie, at
whose table I saw it first introduced, writes thus upon the subject: " quaich, ..."
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