What-is-it question V

Post by **Granmaa** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:20 pm

Here's a particularly fiendish one. I believe it's about 18cm long and made around 1830.
No clues!

Miles

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Post by **2209patrick** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:30 pm

My wild guess is a spoon boat or tray.

Pat.
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Post by **Granmaa** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:45 pm

No, you're not warm at all Pat!

A rather cryptic clue for you: it's not directly related to food and drink.

Miles
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Kit · Post by **Kit** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:52 pm

I think I need to disquallify myself on this one. Kit
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Post by **2209patrick** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:02 pm

A bordaloue, a chamber pot for ladies.

Pat.
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Post by **Granmaa** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:54 am

Very well done Pat. Did my clue give it away?

Some info:
A Jesuit priest named Louis Bordeloue (1632-1704) gave a most beautiful and lengthy sermon, so lengthy in fact that young ladies passed around a female urinal, now called a "bordeloue", in order not to miss his oratory.

Miles
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Post by **2209patrick** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:21 pm

Thanks Miles.
A chamber pot was one of my first ideas, but I didn't check it out until after your clue.

Pat.
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