vase
noun
a vessel, as of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or metal, usually higher than it is wide, used chiefly to hold cut flowers or for decoration.
vaselike
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a word derived from
vase.
Example Sentences
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They were often backed by starched lace or wire-wrapped greenery and held in a decorative vaselike “posy holder” made from silver, brass, porcelain, ivory or pearl.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2020
The ratios of the contrasting metals continue to fluctuate in a group of trays and vaselike hookah bases, as do treatments for water, flowering plants, horizon lines and architecture.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
