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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

The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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