Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… cater for the needs of convivial venues such as taverns and coffeehouses. ‘Fuddling glasses’ were conceived for drinking games. In late Stuart London, some taverns offered to their customers ‘jolly boys’, cups with twisted handles that … and linked arms’ and were very difficult to drink out of without spilling; similar practices of convivial drinking games are suggested by ‘puzzle jugs’ from the 1770s. 4 Toastmasters' glasses were introduced to enable toastmasters to … were inscribed with the names of the ‘toasts’ or with verse dedicated to them. As such they became part of literary games, as the Kit Cat Club was a literary as well as a political institution. Poetry written for the club’s toasting …
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