samovar
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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
In this bittersweet fantasia, modeled on Anton Chekhov’s plays, George Bernard Shaw substitutes cups of Earl Grey and cucumber sandwiches for Chekhov’s samovar and pickles.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018
She awoke refreshed, and quite early, in time to get the very first cup of tea from the samovar in the common room.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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