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sugar bowl

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noun

a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.

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Origin of sugar bowl

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

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

Examples from the Web for sugar bowl

There were rumours that among the articles was a silver coal-scuttle, but it proved to be a sugar-bowl in that pattern.
Tommy and Grizel|J.M. Barrie
Miss Isobel started to pour the cream into the sugar-bowl, but caught herself in the act.
Quin|Alice Hegan Rice
From behind a curtain in a little box nailed to the wall she drew a loaf of bread, a paper of tea and a sugar-bowl.
Exit Betty|Grace Livingston Hill
Do you expect to bid on your cream-jug and sugar-bowl when they are put up, Betty?
Mr. Pat's Little Girl|Mary F. Leonard

But at tea-time she almost relented when she saw Teddy look into the sugar-bowl, and turn away without taking a single lump.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878|Various