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punchbowl

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punchbowl [ˈpʌntʃˌbəʊl]
n
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) a large bowl for serving punch, lemonade, etc., usually with a ladle and often having small drinking glasses hooked around the rim
2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Brit a bowl-shaped depression in the land
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punchbowl [ˈpʌntʃbəʊl] N → ponchera f
punchbowl [ˈpʌntʃˌbəʊl] n → grande coppa da punch
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The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
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