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UK
/sˈæmuːvˌɑː/
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NOUN
- a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea
How To Use samovar In A Sentence
- The company brilliantly captures the feel of the master's writing without having to resort to big dresses and gleaming samovars.
- Antipa Vologonov sets out a squat samovar that is dinted of side, and plated with green oxide on handle, turncock, and spout. Through Russia
- After searching and seeking and hunting the Russian Samovar can now be yours!
- He would offer him bread and salt, the burning charcoal would be put into the "samovar," and he would be made quite at home. Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar
- _shchi_ (cabbage-soup) sends up its perpetual incense, and the samovar of cheap tea is never empty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
- The samovar is a little one, and before the visitors have drunk all the tea they want, she has to heat it five times. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
- We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar. What’s Your Problem?
- They do pretty good kirsch and I wouldn't mind sharing a samovar with you.
- Not far from the bridge he found a small café, and sat down beside the huge samovar. KARA KUSH
- These singing-bird-parties are held in the underground rooms of houses, which are cool in summer and warm in winter, and I imagine the company and rivalry of a number of birds in the semi-darkness, with glimmering light from the 'kalian' pipes, and the bubbling of water in the pipe-bowls, and the boiling samovar tea-urns, all combine to cheat the birds pleasantly into believing that it is night-time in the spring song-season. Persia Revisited