Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
snuffer-tray .
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Examples
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There appear, therefore, to have been two articles so called: one, like a chafing-dish, to carry live coals for the purpose of burning incense; another, like a snuffer-dish, to be used in trimming the lamps, in order to carry the snuffers and convey away the snuff.
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From the _beau ideal_ to the choice of a snuffer-dish, all came within her province, and was to be submitted, without appeal, to her instinctive sense of moral order.
Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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