cellar door

See also: cellar-door

English

Etymology

From Middle English celer door, celer dore.

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Noun

cellar door (plural cellar doors)

  1. A door leading to a cellar.
  2. Part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased.
  3. (linguistics, phonology) In phonaesthetics, a quintessential example of an inherently pleasant-sounding phrase irrespective of its meaning.

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