soap dish

noun

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

Origin of soap dish

First recorded in 1830–40

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The shower curtain has been pulled down: the soap dish is broken off.
The Stacks: The Searing Story of How Murder Stalked a Tiny New York Town | E. Jean Carroll | April 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
(from his bed, suspiciously, to Culchard, who is setting fire to a small pastille in a soap-dish).
The Travelling Companions | F. Anstey
She emptied the soap dish, cleaned it, poured in the germicide, and dropped the jade necklace into the liquid.
The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath
There were a soap dish and a small pitcher, and they looked beautiful on the thick white cloth, that was fringed all around.
A Little Girl in Old Boston | Amanda Millie Douglas
She twigs at once what I want, makes a guttural sound, and in half-an-hour or so returns with a soap-dish full of dirty salt.
James Geikie | Marion I. Newbigin

The outside cover made a good soap dish, and the inside cover answered well enough for a mirror when he shaved.
The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline Lockhart

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