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
Delicate drawings and watercolors of clouds, the aurora borealis, the frozen sea, an Arctic fox, a hen, a samovar and many plants, some pressed, some drawn, were assembled into a self-published journal.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2018
He spoke to her in Russian, and she nodded and took a glass and filled it with hot tea from the samovar.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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