soup plate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of soup plate
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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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
He referred, as he later told his superior, to the legs of an insect approaching his soup plate, but the fathers took a dark view of the matter.
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
The bouquet was indeed as large as a soup plate.
From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Speed, Nell
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