sugar basin

American  

noun

British.

1. sugar bowl.

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Etymology

Origin of sugar basin

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

‘I want it as a birthday present to my venerable Aunt Lydia Hancock. This is the creamer of the set. Only this morning a clumsy maid melted the sugar basin. I want you to make me a new one. I want it about so high ... so broad .. .’Johnny glanced at the delicate, lace-ruffled, gesturing hands, guessed the inches, and wrote it down.

From Literature

‘But you have not as yet said whether or not you can make my sugar basin for me—and have it done by Monday next? Of course I thought first of you—because you made the original. But there are other silversmiths. Perhaps you would rather not undertake ...’ Mr. Lapham was in a study.

From Literature

‘Why, of course—Cilia Lapham. That was July. Come to think, it was the very day Mr. Hancock ordered his sugar basin. It was the second day of July—that was a Tuesday.’

From Literature

Ah ... a sugar basin to match!

From Literature

A sugar basin would have to have two such handles and they would be larger than the one on the creamer.

From Literature