Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word coffee-urn.
Examples
-
As Mr.. O'Rourke set the coffee-urn in front of Mr.. Bilkins and flanked Mr. Bilkins with the broiled mackerel and buttered toast, Mr.. O'Rourke's conscience smote her.
-
I'll never be able to do any serious business again until I get her behind the coffee-urn.
-
[Illustration: THE OLD GENTLEMAN LIFTED JEAN UP ON THE POST.] "I should like to see where papa lived when he was a boy, but I wouldn't care to have Mr. Congreve there," said Bea, who had that morning began being more womanly than usual by relieving mama of coffee-urn duties.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
-
"We will call our contrivance a coffee-urn; it sounds aristocratic," suggested Nattie, as she cleared the books from the least shaky table, and spread it with three towels, in lieu of a table-cloth.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer
-
Down to the ground went Nattie's knife and fork, the coffee-urn narrowly escaped a similar fate, up went the back of the Duchess, and two dismayed Bohemians and one impatient cat gazed at each other.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer
-
So everybody pranced into the dining-room, and Bea was placed behind the coffee-urn, and couldn't do a thing but blush, and look too happy and overcome to attend to her duties.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
-
Mrs. Blecker's face grew hot; but that might have been the steam of the coffee-urn.
-
"Well, anyhow, Christmas is coming," said Bea, nodding cheerfully over the coffee-urn.
Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving
-
"But our dishes, 'ay, there's the rub,'" and she laughingly held up the coffee-urn, while the less adaptable Nattie thought apprehensively of the propensity of things to cool.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer
-
Sylvia took her place at one end, behind the coffee-urn, Molly at the other end, behind the strawberries and ice-cream.
The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.