Definition of "cruet-stand" [cruet-stand]

• A frame for holding cruets; a caster; a stand for cruets together with the cruets containing various condiments. (noun)

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• "There was no one in the eating-room, which had a separate entrance, and they sat down at a small table with a cruet-stand, a handbell, a bottle of Worcester sauce, and in a vase some failing pyrethrums which had never been fresh."
• "“Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too,” said"
• "“It serves you right,” she was saying: “I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.”"