"A melting-pot used by goldsmiths", to use Century's definition. Application to goldsmiths' crucibles may derive from their similarity to communion cruets and/or from confusion of cruet and cruset (French creuset).
1965, Austin Clarke, The Bright Temptation, page 5:
Close on their heels came the metalworkers , the jewellers and goldsmiths , carrying their crevets — all those who work with the ... and he bellied his cassocky way through the clerics , scattering them like altar - boys in his haste .
1701, A new Account of Italy ...; together with a particular description of Rome, Venice, ... and all the other remarkable cities, page 80:
[…] Altar-Services; and among others, one made of Chrystal; Candlesticks, Crevets, a Bason and Eure, and the Foot of a Chalice, all of Amber.
1969, Edward Hasted, The Parish and Town of Faversham, page 34:
[…] and on the sepulchre next the high altar there, on high days; and to the same likewise her vestment of green velvet embroidered, with its appurtenances, a chalice, two crevets, a bell, and a paxbrede, all of silver, […]
Kitchen utensil.
1731-2, inventory of the state of Daniel Malthie, quoted in 1916, Mrs. Dorothy Lord (Maltby) Verrill, Maltby-Maltbie Family History, page 285:
The Inventory of the Estate of Daniel Malthie Late of Branford, Dec'd, taken and apprised by Samuel Harrington and Samuel Stent, February ye 4th, 1731-2: […]
one brass Kittle, £3; one brass Kittle, £7 . . 10 0 0
one box Iron and Heeters, 7s; one Crevet, 1s 0 8 0
one brass candlestick, 4s; one Iron candle-stick, 2s […]
1796, James Hemings, "Inventory of Kitchen Utincils" at Monticello, quoted in 2014, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Lindsey R. Swindall, American Appetites: A Documentary Reader, University of Arkansas Press (→ISBN), page 56:
2 wooden paste rolers—2 Chopping Knives
6 Iron Crevets—3 tin tart moulds—5 Kitchen apperns
1 old Brass Kettle—1 Iron Candle stick
1877, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 753:
"Oliver Cromwell at Hampton Court", After the return of Charles II. an aspirant for royal notice published a book, which he called "The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwell," in which he charged "Joan" with being niggardly in the details of her table; but this inventory tends to dissipate the slander, because it shows her to have possessed a very extensive collection of kitchen utensils and appliances : copper pots and pans, iron crevets, brass pots, scummers of brass, “moulds or pattipans,” abound. In the scullery were pewter dishes of five several sizes, while the trencher plates are numbered by dozens.
mention:
1871, Early English Text Society: Extra series, page 111:
Crwetes, 75, cruets. "Crewet or crevet, a little vial, or narrow-mouth'd glass." P. "Copes, crosses, cruets." Bp Bale p. 259.
A stand for holding cruets (condiment containers).
mention / translation, giving a different definition (tripus i.e. tripod?)
1726, Sir Peyton Ventris, The Reports of Sir Peyton Ventris, Kt., Late One of the Justices of Common Pleas: In Two Parts, page 157:
[…] duobus Ignitabulis (Anglice, Chafing-dishes) duobus tripis (Anglice, Crevets) duobus Anforiis (Anglice, Chopping knives) un. pixid. ferrea (Anglice, Box-Iron) quatuor calefactor (Anglice, Heaters) […]
an apse or apsidal chapel at the east end of a church, especially a French church: chevet?
2006, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Paris 14th Edition, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 242:
Buried in the transept, crevet, and crypt are the remains of three royal families (the Capets, the Valois, and the Bourbons), 41 kings, 32 queens, 63 princes and princesses, 10 dignitaries, and the relics of three saints.
2008, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Paris 15th Edition, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 263:
But few were able to rival the luminous eastern end of the church: Suger's celebrated, color-flooded crevet. Dubbed the “ manifesto ” of the new Gothic style, the crevet was built to displace the crowds of pilgrims, which became so immense that, as rumor has it, some would faint […] The crevet is still home to some of the finest stained glass in France, […]
mention, with definition:
(Can we date this quote?), Exploring Romanesque Architecture in Catalonia, Don Hale (→ISBN), page 21:
CREVET: The apse or more especially several apsidal chapels at the east end of a church. This term refers more especially to French architecture.
(Can we date this quote?), Geraldine Evans, Game of Bones (Rafferty & Llewellyn British Mysteries, #18):
... themselves to his tenant's stuff, as he kept up a constant stream of comments from his perch by the door. 'You go through his stuff good. Make sure he no steal from me.' And, 'He vain boy. Wear crevets. Must be poof. No girlfriends.
Also cravat?
1929, Ronald Firbank, Odette. Inclinations. Caprice
She had only to say, "Make haste with them crevets," for Gripper to go off in a huff, and Leonard, should he be there, would be almost sure to follow. Men were so touchy.
2010, Robert Andrews, The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall, Penguin (→ISBN)
Lovely spot overlooking the beach with a contemporary, easy-going atmosphere, offering such ambitious dishes as “Seafood Operetta” – red mullet, crevets, mussels, scallops and fennel – though delicious meat and vegetarian dishes are ...
