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Samovar   Listen
Samovar

noun
1.
A metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea.






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"Samovar" Quotes from Famous Books



... husband if she deigns to have me, and when lovers come, I'll go into the next room. I'll clean her friends' goloshes, blow up their samovar, run their errands." ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... man with a bull-neck, round-bellied and corpulent. He agreed to my proposal. A hundred paces from the mill there was a little outhouse open to the air on all sides. They carried straw and hay there for us; the workman set a samovar down on the grass near the river, and, squatting on his heels, began to blow vigorously into the pipe of it. The embers glowed, and threw a bright light on his young face. The miller ran to wake his wife, and suggested at last that I myself should sleep in the cottage; but ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev



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