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Updated: May 28, 2025
Faith, a man must be in love if he will hear 'No' twice said to him when he is sixty-five and then go back to kneel and plead again." My lord Duke rose from his seat to set upon the table near by his chocolate-cup.
It is the "xicalli" of the ancient Aztecs, changed to "jicara" by the Spaniards, by which they mean a chocolate-cup; and even in Italy a modification of the same word may be heard, a tea-cup being called a chicchera. On top of one of the hills we just got a glimpse of a small pack of wolves, or coyotes, as they are called, from the Aztec coyotl.
The pretty little ornamented calabashes used, among other purposes, for drinking chocolate out of were called by the Mexicans xicalli, a word which the Spaniards made into jícara, and now use to mean a chocolate-cup; and even the Italians have taken to it, and call a tea-cup a chicchera.
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