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cups and saucers



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It includes appetizer and dinner plates, soup bowls, coffee cups and saucers.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

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

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2023

When Glass was a little girl, Mrs. Sutherland often invited her to tea, preparing a tray of fragile cups and saucers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2022

Etta put cups and saucers on the table, opened the sugar bowl.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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