Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a fountain, a bowl, usually quite flat and shallow, which receives the water.
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Examples
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Then we notice the tiny price sticker in the base of the vasque: "778 euros."
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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The water taps, with their four-prong handles and porcelain tops, read "chaud" and "froid" and are as charming as the delicate scalloped vasque* beneath them.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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The water taps, with their four-prong handles and porcelain tops, read "chaud" and "froid" and are as charming as the delicate scalloped vasque* beneath them.
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Autour de la vasque de la fontaine, un million de fleurs plus de couleurs et de nuances que l'arc-en-ciel
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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The water taps, with their four-prong handles and porcelain tops, read "chaud" and "froid" and are as charming as the delicate scalloped vasque* beneath them.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Then we notice the tiny price sticker in the base of the vasque: "778 euros."
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Then we notice the tiny price sticker in the base of the vasque: "778 euros."
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Then we notice the tiny price sticker in the base of the vasque: "778 euros."
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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The water taps, with their four-prong handles and porcelain tops, read "chaud" and "froid" and are as charming as the delicate scalloped vasque* beneath them.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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The water taps, with their four-prong handles and porcelain tops, read "chaud" and "froid" and are as charming as the delicate scalloped vasque* beneath them.
woiqhyyi commented on the word vasque
I was calling that the keepbox... who knew there was an actual word for it?
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word vasque
I just called it a fountain bowl or a birdbath bowl. I just emptied mine today. It was full of wet and gunky, decaying leaves.
September 4, 2021