ewer

[yoo-er]

noun

1. a pitcher with a wide spout.

2. Decorative Art.,  a vessel having a spout and a handle, especially a tall, slender vessel with a base.

ewer

/ ˈjuːə /

noun

1. a large jug or pitcher with a wide mouth

Word History and Origins

Origin of ewer¹

1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French evier < Latin aquārius vessel for water, equivalent to aqu ( a ) water + -ārius -ary

Word History and Origins

Origin of ewer¹

C14: from Old French evier, from Latin aquārius water carrier, from aqua water

Example Sentences

The table is draped with a Turkish carpet, and the jewelry, the furs, the gold ewers and salvers all insinuate a rising global commodities trade — one of those “commodities” being people like the painter himself.

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A dragon curls its tail around the base of a golden, long-neck ewer, its body forming a handle of protruding, pointy scales.

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At medieval banquets, a ewer -- an impressive jug filled with rose water -- and basins for slop water would be taken around so that guests could deal with the sticky finger problem.

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But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.

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We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.

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