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- noun Alternative spelling of
finger bowl .
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Examples
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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One evocative scene depicts a 1919 New Year's Eve party held at a social club in Nairobi, complete with a turban-clad orchestra, chic foxtrotting couples, fingerbowl Champagne glasses, and fisticuffs between tuxedo-ed gentlemen.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Glamorous, Old-World New Year's Entertaining Tips Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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The ten-eyed man with eyeballs in his fingers was doing OK, until somebody gave him a fingerbowl full of lemon juice.
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The ten-eyed man with eyeballs in his fingers was doing OK, until somebody gave him a fingerbowl full of lemon juice.
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The chill, remote beauty we know from her famous bust in Berlin is here revealed as a two-fisted gourmand: seated on an exquisite throne, she seizes a chicken in both hands and tears into it with her teeth, nary a knife, napkin, or fingerbowl anywhere in sight.
The Lost Art of Eating Rowland, Ingrid D. 2004
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It was too moist to burn very well; the flames died down quickly, but continued to hiss and smolder until he doused the peach with a sprinkle of rosewater from a fingerbowl.
With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987
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Finger towels then and a silver fingerbowl too, she placed on the table.
Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982
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Children should be taught at an early age the fundamentals of "table" manners in such a way that by the time they have reached the years of manhood the correct use of knife, fork, spoon and fingerbowl is to them almost second nature.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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