coffee bowl

plural coffee bowls

1. A small bowl in which coffee is served, especially in France.

   The old mother smiled, steeping her bread in the coffee-bowl.

   1871, Ouida, chapter III, in Folle-Farine, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., published 1874, page 95

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   Taking the coffee bowl between his two hands, he drank a little.

   1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, Part Five, III, p. 139

   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.

   1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC