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soup plate

American  

noun

  1. a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.


soup plate British  

noun

  1. a deep plate with a wide rim, used esp for drinking soup

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of soup plate

First recorded in 1820–30


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To serve, spoon two pieces of chicken into the middle of each soup plate, then ladle the vegetables and broth around the chicken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2016

Long have St. Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City."

From Time Magazine Archive

Her long-suffering husband dropped dead in his soup plate when she absentmindedly toasted Germany at a dinner in the Russian Embassy.

From Time Magazine Archive

She upset it all into a soup plate full of water, and then, and not till then, it was discovered to be tea!

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

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