But its tightly packed rows of clothes oozed choice and at €119 the Jean-Paul Gaultier bustiers (sorry, no conical cups) were a snip of the Triangle d'Or price tag.

This can be seen, as in the photograph to the right, in a conical cup partially filled with liquid when a light is shining from a distance and at an angle equal to the angle of the cone.

Kids break ancient irreplaceable pale green conical Woolworth's cup belonging to Mrs Wall-Eye.

The conical cup merges into the bore, usually without a sharp break, causing a softening and veiling of the tone quality.

The stuccoed altar in the upper cave was discovered in 1900, surrounded by strata of ashes, pottery and "other refuse", among which were votive objects in bronze, terracotta, iron and bone, with fragments of some thirty libation tables and countless ceramic conical cups for food offerings.

He picked up a broad-based conical cup and sipped as he peered out into the mist.

Not all rhyta were so valuable; many were simply decorated conical cups in ceramic.

I remember the first time he lifted me up to look inside that conical cup and see the tightly wrapped whorl within, It looked not unlike the new, close-rolled frond of a fern, emerging a couple of inches from a sticky mess in the base of the cup.

It consists of a flavored sorbet like frozen dessert inside a conical, plastic cup with a gumball at the bottom; the flavor of the ice is usually raspberry ripple.