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samovar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | urn |
Examples of samovar
samovar
Throughout the night we were served cups of green tea from a large silver samovar.
From the denverpost.com
The samovar was an almost permanent source of hot water in a Russian home.
From the kansas.com
The anatomy of the samovar, first made in Russia in about 1780, is clever.
From the courier-journal.com
That nip of vodka or tea round the samovar is all the more welcome when it is freezing.
From the guardian.co.uk
If this is indeed the end, in effect, of Mr Yeltsin's reign, he leaves a poisoned samovar.
From the economist.com
Like a samovar it has a small tap near the base for extracting either tea or hot water.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It was also common to have an everyday samovar and then a more opulent one for social events.
From the theepochtimes.com
In the rush to the story-telling we lose some of the slow, samovar-style simmer of a real Chekhov.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
A big, brass samovar doubles as a faucet for a bathroom sink.
From the bloomberg.com
- A metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea
- A samovar (Russian: u0441u0430u043Cu043Eu0432u0430u0440, IPA:u00A0u00A0( listen); literally "self-boil", Persian: Samu0101var, Turkish: semaver) is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in countries in Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle-East...
- A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil. ...
- A vessel for heating and boiling water for making tea, particularly in Slavic and Central Asian areas and Asia Minor.
