10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLOP BASIN»
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slop basin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
slop basin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Eighteenth-century English Porcelain in the Collection of ...
6d. in 1787.3 The Indianapolis specimen may have served as either a slop basin
or a breakfast basin. A Chamberlain account book begun in 1 788 lists half-pint
slop basins, 1 that is, waste bowls — the first suggested use for bowls of this size.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Catherine Beth Lippert, 1987
2
Further Indiscretions by a Woman of No Importance
We were having an excellent tea with honey, bilberry jam and other good things,
when our host suddenly rang the bell, explaining that his housekeeper had
forgotten the slop basin. She arrived in response to the bell. We were then deep
in ...
It was moved by Mr. Whobbles, and seconded by Mr. Kilderkin — "That the
puddle is the natural home of the water-cress, while the slop-basin is its prison ;
the former expanding it into rooty richness, the latter forcing it into a leafy
luxuriance, ...
4
Punch: Or the London Charivari
It was moved by Mr. Whobbles, and seconded by Mr. Kilderkin-“That the puddle
is the natural home of the water-cress, while the slop-basin is its prison ; the
former expanding it into rooty richness, the latter forcing it into a leafy luxuriance,
...
5
The footman's directory and butler's rememberancer; or, The ...
Have four tea-cups and saucers, and if there be coffee, four coffee-cups and
saucers ; also let there be a cream-jug, a tea-pot, slop-basin, sugar-tongs, and a
tea-spoon for each cup and saucer both for coffee and tea, also spoons for the ...
6
The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic ...
Charley is forced to drink other people's leavings; her tea is that customarily
destined for the slop bowl, also known as a slop basin, an adjunct to the tea
service into which the cold dregs of the teacups and teapots were emptied before
re‹lling.
7
Women-writers of the Nineteenth Century
Thackeray has spoken somewhere of the absurdity of raising "a tempest in a slop
-basin." Jane Austen never did anything absurd. She would have loved a slop-
basin made of rare and delicate china; but she allowed no tempests to sweep ...
8
Women-Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Thackeray has spoken somewhere of the absurdity of raising “a tempest in a slop
-basin.” Jane Austen never did anything absurd. She would have loved a slop-
basin made of rare and delicate china; but she allowed no tempests to sweep ...
9
Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
... the night. slop overesp.Am. col. show too much love for(sb. suchaschild
oranimal): she has to go and slop (all)over it. Longman. slop basin, /Am., Can.
slop bowl/ Br. bowl used at table for holding the leavings of tea or coffee. slope(
head) ...
10
The Diary of John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham
in a burnished gilt frame (next the door) a picture of our Saviour in copper black
frame (on the tea table) 6 finest nanken cups & saucers, a tea-pot, sugar basin,
saucer & cover, slop basin, one larger slop basin, 6 blue & white coffee cups, ...
John Longe, Michael John Stone, 2008
