silver service
Britishnoun
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If you’re expecting Ibsen with petticoats and silver service, you’ve come to the wrong place.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
I also learned silver service one summer, and still astonish associates with how many plates I can carry at once.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2018
On this date in 1916, private citizens of Arizona let the contract for a solid silver service to be presented to the battleship Arizona.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2018
During an 18-month spell at The Plough restaurant in Monkspath, Solihull, he was trained in silver service - a skill which would help him transform Birmingham's Bengali restaurant trade.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2018
Mary Anne searched her purse for a Kleenex, but pulled out instead a teaspoon pirated from her mother’s silver service.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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