Separating beaker
As a stirrup cup (also nightcap or Schlürschluck in Austria also Fluchtachterl , Switzerland Herrgöttli ) is in the drinking culture colloquially the last drink called that at a celebration or other events is drunk at parting. A stirrup cup (literally stirrup glass) describes the process of saying goodbye to guests in the Scottish Highlands such as the alcoholic prelude to a traditional fox hunt and the glasses that go with it.
The name Scheidebecher originally comes from the North German and Westphalian area.
Usage examples
"And since emotions only heal, / don't forget us too, the weak and young, / and how we share the separating beaker today / so share with us - the memory."
- Franz Grillparzer : Words of Farewell , 1843
Individual evidence
- ↑ Separating beaker. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 14 : R - skewness - (VIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Words of farewell . In: Grillparzer, Complete Works . Volume 1, Munich (1960-1965), pp. 290-291.