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samovar
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Definition:a Russian tea pot
photos: By USSR Post - New: Scanned 600 dpi by User Matsievsky from personal collection. Old: Personal collection. Scanned and processed by Mariluna. 15 September 2007 (original upload date), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2753157
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"[...] Our dear Samovar will be delighted.” (He used to call the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, well known in society, a samovar, because she was always bubbling over with excitement.)
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I have always seen the samovar as half full,
Andre Dubus III. House of Sand and Fog, p.20 (1999)
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"And she might get the samovar ready for me there, the old hag."
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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