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  • present tense form of dish (3rd person singular).
  • plural of dish.
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dishes

NOUN
cuisine
Synonyms




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The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it.

From Time Magazine Archive

They used firehoses, thumped on dishpans and shot skyrockets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Harry Smallen had studied the surf at Martha's Vineyard, Mass, and successfully avoided the soapy-water look that makes most amateur seascapes dreary as dishpans.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was officiating at a funeral in Sémur, while I bought cups, dishpans, and various other utensils for our chocolate outfit.

From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Shortall, Katherine




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