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blue plate

[ bloo pleyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
Also called blue plate special. a specially priced main course, as of meat and vegetables, listed as an item on a menu, especially in an inexpensive restaurant.

First recorded in 1940–45

The sea lay under me like a great blue plate, the schooner a white ant crawling in its centre.

He asked if they still kept doughnuts in a yellow crock with a blue plate over it on the bottom shelf of the pantry—and they do!

The "Blue Plate Special" furnishes, in short, the chief items in a "good home meal."

He had new milk in a blue bowl, and johnny-cake on a little blue plate.

Maizie gazed for a moment at the oatmeal in her own blue plate, then with a little petulant gesture, she pushed the plate away.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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