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soap dish

American  

noun

  1. a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.


Etymology

Origin of soap dish

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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A singing "brussel sprout", Italy's soft play area and a man in a soap dish: just some of the highlights, according to Graham Norton, of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

From BBC • May 13, 2023

There’s a soap dish for sale at a beauty products shop in São Paulo, Brazil.

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

With a few Serbians in red and blue mixed in, they had emptied out toward Lusail Stadium, the futuristic structure that by night kind of resembles a lit-up soap dish.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2022

The other fixtures, those necessary accessories — the soap dish, the cup holder, the towel rack, the toilet paper holder — are tile-glazed too.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2022

Occasionally he held the soap dish down until it filled with water and sank.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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