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saucer

[saw-ser]

Origin

noun

a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.

something resembling a saucer, as in shape.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old French saussier. See sauce, -er²

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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saucer (ˈsɔːsə)

—n
1.	a small round dish on which a cup is set
2.	any similar dish

[C14: from Old French saussier container for sauce]

'saucerful

—n

'saucerless

—*adj*

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saucer

1343, from O.Fr. saucier "sauce dish," from L.L. salsarium, neut. of salsarius "of or for salted things," from L. salsus (see sauce). Meaning "small, round, shallow vessel for supporting a cup" is attested from c.1702.

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"All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill and inhale deeply from across the room. In about eight seconds the top of the inhaler's head rises slowly and in a dignified manner until it reaches the ceiling where it floats, bumping gently up and down. The teeth then drop out and arrange themselves on the floor to spell "Portage High School, 1930" the eyes roll upward and backward, and a strange odor of burning rubber fills the room."

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