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- noun Plural form of
spittoon .
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Examples
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Except about twenty large stout wooden boxes called spittoons, there was no furniture whatever in prison number three.
Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 1873
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Back in the days of top hats, spittoons and the Missouri Compromise, a lot of Cognacs were lighter and fruitier than their 21st century descendants, and like whiskeys, were meant to be mixed as well as sipped.
Tony Sachs: Drinking The Past: New Spirits Recreate Vintage Tastes Tony Sachs 2011
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On exhibit were cigar-store Indians, spittoons, hookahs and a three-foot Meerschaum pipe with a relief carving of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
U.S. Tobacco's Chief Made Dipping Hip Stephen Miller 2010
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If the National Day of Prayer has been in place but a few decades, the spittoons removed from legislative chambers seem to have greater claims to a history-based place in American public life.
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He believes Manningham Baths, in Bradford, built in 1904, to be the most intact surviving example in the country, complete with ceramic spittoons along the sides of the swimming pool.
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B, the removal of spittoons from the bars of West Virginia?
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Besides the spitting he encountered in Washington--there were spittoons everywhere, he noted--he was waited on by slaves.
Answer Man's quiz: the teacher's guide John Kelly 2010
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It looks like a union hall minus the spittoons, or one of those lobbies where they swear in new citizens.
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Besides the spitting he encountered in Washington -- there were spittoons everywhere, he noted -- he was waited on by slaves.
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SAGAL: The spittoons, he protested the removal of spittoons you think?
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