ewer

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The tub may be wooden, the ewer convincingly rendered as base metal, but the bedding and Mary’s gown are of silk with golden threads that is recognizably Italian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

At medieval banquets, a ewer -- an impressive jug filled with rose water -- and basins for slop water would be taken around so that guests could deal with the sticky finger problem.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

But they’re irrelevant to counteracting the rupture of a vanished world that, a thousand years ago in China, brought about a stoneware ewer in the shape of a parrot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2019

We sat at a wooden table near a mural of Jorjadze, who was portrayed in her usual headpiece, watering a tree with rivulets of newspaper that poured out of a clay ewer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling, I rushed to his basin and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë