Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A globular or bowlshaped vessel of pottery or glass designed to hold cut roses or other flowers.
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Examples
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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl on which two china cherubs smirked.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl on which two china cherubs smirked.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl on which two china cherubs smirked.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl on which two china cherubs smirked.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl on which two china cherubs smirked.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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My rose-bowl of Venetian glass got broken when the butcher threw her over for the housemaid next door.
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A tall screen of beautifully carved sandalwood masked one corner of the room, but beyond it protruded the end of a heavy writing-table upon which lay some loose papers, and, standing amid them, an enormous silver rose-bowl, brimming with sulphur-colored blooms.
The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921
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Lord Evelyn found him lukewarm, changed and dulled from the vivid devotee of old, who had coloured up all over his pale face at the sight of a Bow rose-bowl.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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My rose-bowl of Venetian glass got broken when the butcher threw her over for the housemaid next-door.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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He strode to a rose-bowl and knocked the ashes of his pipe into the water -- Doggie trembled lest he might next squirt tobacco juice over the ivory curtains.
The Rough Road William John Locke 1896
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