carafe

ca·rafe

noun \kə-ˈraf, -ˈräf\

Definition of CARAFE

1

: a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine

2

: a usually glass container used to hold and serve coffee

Examples of CARAFE

1. We drank a carafe of wine.

Origin of CARAFE

French, from Italian caraffa, from Arabic gharrāfa

First Known Use: 1767

Other Household Terms

cruet, curiosity, duvet, fiasco, sham, taper, valance, whatnot

Rhymes with CARAFE

agrafe, bar graph, behalf, chiffchaff, cowlstaff, digraph, distaff, Falstaff, flagstaff, Flagstaff, giraffe, half-staff, horselaugh, kenaf, line graph, mooncalf, paraph, pikestaff, riffraff, tipstaff