Stirrup cup

In Scots the host may well, in inviting his guest to stay briefly for that farewell drink, call it a dochan doris (from Scottish Gaelic deoch an dorais [ˈtʲɔx ən̪ˠ ˈt̪ɔɾɪʃ], literally "drink of the door").

[2][3] In Anya Seton's Katherine the custom occurs frequently before English royalty and nobility leave on travels abroad or progresses.

Coulton's Chaucer and his England it is referred to in relation to the Canterbury pilgrims setting out.

It is also used in a number of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels set in England after the Norman Invasion.

The vessel is mentioned in the poem "The Stirrup-Cup" by the nineteenth-century American poet, Sidney Lanier, in the traditional Scottish song "The Parting Glass", and in the poem "In my Dreams" by Stevie Smith.