salver
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The engraved silver salver bore the mark of Dorothy Mills, one of just a handful of registered female silversmiths working in the 1700s, the NT said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Three new biographies underline the premise that life can be tough, even for those who have it handed to them on a silver salver.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
He looked around, called upon David Moyes, and together they held up the silver salver.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2013
The "quiet Beatle" — the one who told an interviewer, "I'm even more normal than normal people" — was also the nicest Beatle: the most thoughtful and generous, the salver of wounds, forgiver of sins.
From Time ● Oct. 5, 2011
There was no sign of a strange cap or stick, and no card on the salver.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Other items included tea services, candlesticks, salvers and presentation pieces.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
We can't bear to admit defeat, because to do so is to make life seem more finite, less likely to be peopled with attractive strangers bearing silver salvers heaped with onion puffs.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2011
We can’t bear to admit defeat, because to do so is to make life seem more finite, less likely to be peopled with attractive strangers bearing silver salvers heaped with onion puffs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011
The purses were carried on large salvers by Yeoman Warders from the Tower of London.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2010
Another of these salvers was of solid silver, to which no objection could be made except that its price was nine hundred and fifty dollars.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
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