rice bowl

noun

1. a small bowl for eating rice out of, esp a decorative one made of china or porcelain
2. a fertile rice-producing region

Example Sentences

That does not matter, for each one has his own rice-bowl on the floor in front of him.

From Project Gutenberg

Foh-Kyung set down his rice-bowl from his left hand and his ivory chop-sticks from his right.

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You passed over Pampanga Province, which is called the rice bowl of the Philippines.

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Facing the Snorter, he spat in his face, with a noise like thunder, a piece of bezoar as large as a rice-bowl.

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