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  • noun Plural form of vase.

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Examples

  • Do you cut your own flowers and have them in vases dotted around the house?

    Late Spring « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Your guests come, congratulate you, sit on their chair, eat, and have great chance to walk around and see how to create porcelain vases, mug, plate, teapot and other earthenware vessels.

    Mug Plate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Ceramics include memories of Elizabeth's sojourn in Holland, including a pair of Delft flower vases from the late 17th-18th century (estimate: £ 60,000 - £ 80,000).

    A Home and Its Love Story Margaret Studer 2010

  • It is a group of 57 large porcelain vases of identical shape (model SR22, leaning heavily towards a shapely Chinese profile), all of which were made and decorated over the past two years and will henceforth reside in the permanent collection of the Musée Guimet (a.k.a. the Musée national des arts asiatiques).

    Sèvres 2009

  • The bugs will rise to the top and then you can take out the flowers and put them in vases for the house.

    Hopelessly Devoted to the Garden 2008

  • The bugs will rise to the top and then you can take out the flowers and put them in vases for the house.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • I stuck all the long stemmed lavender in vases all around the house, and my daughters placed the left over flowers in small linen bags for their wardrobes and drawers.

    tresser - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • But there is evidence to show that flowers in vases which are not effectively maintained, can pose an infection risk.

    Hospital Bans Flowers | Impact Lab 2007

  • We have them scattered around in vases and they are breaking into yellow blooms.

    Friday Blogalicious Time 2006

  • A few days later I was redoing some pots and it was time to pull out the parsley and throw the dried seeds (I love cutting the "going to seed but still looking good stems" around the house in vases alone or as a filler) around.

    Mashed Parsley Root & Sweet Potato | A Veggie Venture 2006

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