Definition of "porringer"

porringer

noun
plural porringers
1. A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
  Quotations
  There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.
  1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca
2. (obsolete) A headdress shaped like such a dish.
  Quotations
  Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till herpinck'd porrenger fell off her head
  1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]