muffineerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

muffineer (複数形 muffineers)

1. A dish for keeping muffins hot.
2. (obsolete または historical) A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
   • 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small antique silverware:

     The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.

   • 2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England:

     The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.