slop bowl

See also: slop-bowl

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Noun

slop bowl (plural slop bowls)

  1. (idiomatic) One of the four components of the traditional tea set. Tea drinkers emptied their unwanted, cold tea into the slop bowl before refilling their cups with fresh, hot tea.

References
  • Savage, George, Newman, Harold (1985) An Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, page 266
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