cellar door
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See also: cellar-door
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English celer door, celer dore.[1][2] By surface analysis, cellar + door.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cellar door (plural cellar doors)
- A door leading to a cellar.
- Part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased.
- (linguistics, phonology) In phonaesthetics, a quintessential example of an inherently pleasant-sounding phrase irrespective of its meaning.
Translations
[edit]door leading to a cellar
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part of a winery
References
[edit]- ^ “celē̆r, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “cellar door, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.