samovar
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One by one the participants approach a gigantic samovar, select a tea cup and fill it with hot water.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Ivan Shabelnyk left home with a friend on March 23 to collect pine cones so the family could light the samovar and have tea.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
Home is the usual Russian affair—chaise longue: check; samovar: check—but the women’s clothes, and their language, are jarringly modern.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019
Richard Nelson’s hushed staging of Chekhov’s tragicomedy, in a new translation by Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, empties its samovar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
After dinners, the family would sit in the open terrace with bowls of dried apricots, and pistachios, sugar candies, and a big samovar of black tea.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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