soup plate

American  

noun

1. a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.

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soup plate British  

noun

1. a deep plate with a wide rim, used esp for drinking soup

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Etymology

Origin of soup plate

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Long have St. Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was showing myself out when my onward course was 19 deflected by a troop of noisy children leaded by the soup plate skirmisher, who was the oldest and apparently the leader of the brood.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris