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cups and saucers

noun as in tea service

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Over-sized cups and saucers, laden with delicious-looking treats, stand next to teapots of many colours, ready to be wheeled on for rehearsals.

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Sometimes I think it’s obsessive, decadent and totally unreasonable to have so many plates, so many cups and saucers.

The collection is made up of mugs, tankards, tea cups and saucers as well as dessert plates and pillboxes.

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How are you essential if you’re selling cups and saucers at a gallery in London 10 years ago?

You can only imagine what a 1990 hand-painted porcelain soup tureen by Cindy Sherman, featuring a self-portrait of the artist as Madame de Pompadour, might have to say to the delicate early-19th-century hand-painted Sèvres cups and saucers beside it on the mansion’s dining table.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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