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Meanings of porringer in English

Spanish
escudilla
Catalan
escudella
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Shallow type of bowl, often used for drinking from.

        escudilla
        Usage of porringer in English
        1
        A large porringer, filled with coffee-and-milk, was on one corner of it.
        The Dream
        2
        So it is by the hour-glass and the fortune told in the porringer.
        Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 3
        3
        He had not much trouble in finishing what was left in the porringer.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        4
        Galope-Chopine turned pale himself and dropped his porringer on the table.
        The Chouans
        5
        A grin of brilliant and perfect comprehension overspread his porringer-like face.
        The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
        6
        She remembered the old silver porringer with its tall, slim-looped letters.
        Georgina of the Rainbows
        7
        Every native used a porringer or vessel made of birch bark.
        Pioneers in Canada
        8
        The piece thus becomes a bowl-shaped porringer, surrounded by a wide, flat edge.
        The Life of the Spider
        9
        It is ill-bred to stoop too close to one's porringer or the meat.
        George Washington's Rules of Civility / Traced to their Sources ...
        10
        The porringer was more than empty; it was cleaned out.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        11
        There was always that old silver porringer, sitting prim and lady-like upon the sideboard.
        Georgina of the Rainbows
        12
        The prisoner greedily seized the bread and the porringer.
        The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
        13
        So these boys ate out of the same porringer, and broke of the same bread.
        Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F...
        14
        There was a sort of porringer of farina, and some cakes of the same substance.
        The Three Midshipmen
        15
        The pretty girl went upstairs, leaving Rene to finish his porringer of buckwheat in boiled milk.
        An Old Maid
        16
        Jagienka took an earthen porringer full of noodles and cheese, and placed it at the threshold.
        The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
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