coffee bowl
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]coffee bowl (plural coffee bowls)
- A small bowl in which coffee is served, especially in France.
- 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers[2], New York: Modern Library, Part Five, III, p. 139:
- Taking the coffee bowl between his two hands, he drank a little.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
- We had a saucepan and a coffee-bowl and one spoon; every day there was a polite squabble as to who should eat out of the saucepan and who out of the coffee-bowl (the saucepan held more), and every day, to my secret anger, Boris gave in first and had the saucepan.