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
“I found myself sitting on the edge of my chair watching actual appraisals, as well as people wandering in the background, thinking, ‘Is that my grandmother’s samovar?
From Washington Post • May 27, 2019
A near silence descended; the only sounds were the singing of the samovar, the crackle of the fire, the gasping sobs of the lady of the house.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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