salt cellar• A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table, which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silversalt cellar.• His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.• Later, in the café, we put the flag into the salt cellar and waited.• A sign of taking too much salt is if you find it difficult to remove the salt cellar from the table.• Guido continued to watch her, toying with the salt cellar, his long tannedfingers very dark against the white cloth.
Originsalt cellar
(1400-1500) cellar from Old Frenchsalliere, from Latinsalarium, from sal“salt”