ewer
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The tub may be wooden, the ewer convincingly rendered as base metal, but the bedding and Mary’s gown are of silk with golden threads that is recognizably Italian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
At medieval banquets, a ewer -- an impressive jug filled with rose water -- and basins for slop water would be taken around so that guests could deal with the sticky finger problem.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021
But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2019
We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
“Just now as I drew it to fill this ewer the cook told me.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Mythology
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