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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

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Examples

  • Divide this into eight equal parts, roll each into a ball with the hand previously dipped in flour, then roll them out with a rolling-pin, with a little flour shaken on the table to prevent the paste from sticking, to the size of a tea-saucer, and bake the pie-clates upon a griddle-iron fixed over a clear fire to the upper bar of the grate.

    A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli

  • Cheyenne, with their hair reaching down almost to their heels; and all along it you'd see strung round pieces of silver, from the size of a silver dollar to a tea-saucer; each one of which was a tell-tale of the number of the scalps the young fellow had taken.

    Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

  • The youth rose and began to encase his bulky frame in a great pilot-cloth coat, each button of which might have done duty as an afternoon tea-saucer.

    Charlie to the Rescue 1859

  • The women wore a petticoat of native cloth, and a broad fillet made of the fibre of the cocoanut husk, with a piece of mother-of-pearl shell the size of a tea-saucer in front.

    Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Then flour a tea-saucer, and filling it with batter, shake it about, and clap it to the hoe, (which must be previously greased,) and the batter will adhere, till it is baked.

    Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822

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