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EPERGNE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epergne mean?
• EPERGNE (noun)
The noun EPERGNE has 1 sense:
1. a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers
Familiarity information: EPERGNE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("epergne" is a kind of...):
centerpiece; centrepiece (something placed at the center of something else (as on a table))
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