finger bowl

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses.
    — In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases[…]

词形变化

finger bowls plural fingerbowl alternative finger-bowl alternative
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