finger bowl

Tancred had tossed his cigar—a cigar that ranked nearly with a Havanese—into the finger-bowl.

I have already selected your two eggs, put fresh water into your finger-bowl, and a snow-white napkin on your plate.

At each plate was a tiny nose-gay held in the beak of a crystal bird, the body of which was a finger-bowl.

When you think that until last year she had actually never seen a finger-bowl, or spoken to a servant!