Phonetic transcription /ˈʃʊgɚ/ /ˈboʊl/
It began as Sanskrit śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar” (originally “gravel” or “grit”).
It then moved into Arabic as sukkar, and entered European languages through the French sucre.
By the 14th century, it was known in English as sugre. Bowl comes froOld Englim sh bolla, “pot, cup, or vessel.”
Roots back to Proto-Germanic bul-, meaning “to swell” or “to be round”.
Definition#
A decorative and functional vessel specifically designed to hold and serve granulated or cubed sugar. In the context of high-end silversmithing, it is typically part of a “tea or coffee service”, accompanied by a creamer and a samovar or coffee pot.
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Phraseology#
Literary quotes#
Pink clapped her hands softly; she had arrived at the answer to her question. She opened the corner cupboard, and took down the darling of her heart-an old sugar bowl, fat, low, and also appropriately pink.
“You dear old thing! I haven’t looked at you for ever so long,” said Pink.
Nobody knew, so Pink’s mother said, how old this sugar bowl might be. It had been in the family when great-grandmother Brown was a little girl, and they called it old then. It had come down through the Aldens. Grandmother Brown was an Alden.
Harper’s Young People. An Illustrated Weekly, Vol. 2, No. 90, Harper & Bros., 19 July 1881, p. 603.
https://www.google.it/books/edition/Harper_s_Young_People/z0hFAAAAYAAJ?hl=it&gbpv=0
Encyclopaedic notes#
a bowl-shaped vessel that has usually two handles and a cover and is used for holding sugar or sugar cubes
Merriam-Webster
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