saucer

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  1. noun A small shallow dish having a slight circular depression in the center for holding a cup.
  2. noun An object similar in shape to a saucer.

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  • It was nearly as big as a saucer, and was marked "ONE BISKER"; and as this seemed to show that it had some value, she handed it to the ferryman. —  The Admiral's Caravan
  • A teacup which is filled so full that it overflows into the saucer is a perfect thorn in the flesh to me. —  Eliza
  • They were the instruments used for tattooing in the islands of the Southern Seas Barton placed the lighted candle beside the saucer, and turned over the needles. —  The Mark Of Cain
  • The spot is not bigger than a saucer, and the bone is comparatively thin there. —  The Gorilla Hunters
  • But gradually she fell into the habit of dreaming for a few moments after she had placed the empty cup back in the saucer, and from that she soon began to lie down again, and at last she stayed in bed every day until Rosalie came back in a temper and dressed her almost by force She had no longer the slightest will of her own. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
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  1. Middle English, sauce dish, from Old French saussier, from sauce, sauce; see sauce.

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  1. Early modern English also sawcer, sauser; from Middle English sawcer, sawcere, sauser, sawser, sawsour, from Old French saussiere, French saucière, a saucedish, = Spanish salsera = Portuguese salseira = Italian salsiera, a vessel for holding sauce, from Middle Latin *salsaria, feminine, salsarium, neuter, a salt-cellar or a sauce-dish, from salsa, salcia, sauce, Latin salsa, salted things: see sauce.
  2. sauce, v., + -er.
 

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