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soap dish

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noun

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

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Origin of soap dish

First recorded in 1830–40

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for soap-dish

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
Both the soap-dish and the wash-basin should be scoured daily.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools|Ministry of Education Ontario
The marble slab and bowl were scrubbed and dried, and the mugs and soap-dish washed, wiped, and replaced.
A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl|Caroline French Benton
Striving to smother his mirth, Lanse bore the soap-dish away.
The Second Violin|Grace S. Richmond

Under the sink should be kept a slop-pail; and, on a shelf by it, a soap-dish and two water-pails.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher

Word Origin and History for soap-dish

soap-dish

n.

1835 as a dish for a bar of soap; 1814 as a holder for shaving-soap, from soap (n.) + dish (n.).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper