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samovar

[sam-uh-vahr, sam-uh-vahr] / ˈsæm əˌvɑr, ˌsæm əˈvɑr /


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One by one the participants approach a gigantic samovar, select a tea cup and fill it with hot water.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

Ivan Shabelnyk left home with a friend on March 23 to collect pine cones so the family could light the samovar and have tea.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

Home is the usual Russian affair—chaise longue: check; samovar: check—but the women’s clothes, and their language, are jarringly modern.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019

When that segment airs, I will probably sit on the edge of my chair and wonder, ‘Is that it? Is that her samovar?’

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2019

After dinners, the family would sit in the open terrace with bowls of dried apricots, and pistachios, sugar candies, and a big samovar of black tea.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri


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