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Meaning of coffee bowl | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A small bowl in which coffee is served, especially in France.

Examples

The old mother smiled, steeping her bread in the coffee-bowl.”
Taking the coffee bowl between his two hands, he drank a little.”
“We had a saucepan and a coffee-bowl and one spoon; every day there was a polite squabble as to who should eat out of the saucepan and who out of the coffee-bowl (the saucepan held more), and every day, to my secret anger, Boris gave in first and had the saucepan.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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