sugar bowl

noun

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

Origin of sugar bowl

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

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One tea-pot, one sugar-bowl, one slop-basin, and twelve cups and saucers.
Nuts and Nutcrackers
Charles James Lever
Sam settled the cream-jug and sugar-bowl before he answered.
Out in the Forty-Five
Emily Sarah Holt
We stopped and talked to a man who was making a sugar-bowl, and he told us how he did it.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
Anonymous
She could not decide whether to call it a sugar-bowl or a chicken.
The Little Colonel's Holidays
Annie Fellows Johnston
One of his hands closed over hers as it reached for the sugar-bowl.
The Rest Hollow Mystery
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