English

Noun

coffee bowl ‎(plural coffee bowls)

1. A small bowl in which coffee is served, especially in France.
   • 1871, Ouida, Folle-Farine, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874, Chapter III, p. 95,

     The old mother smiled, steeping her bread in the coffee-bowl.

   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, Part Five, III, p. 139,

     Taking the coffee bowl between his two hands, he drank a little.

   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter VI,

     We had a saucepan and a coffee-bowl and one spoon; every day there was a polite squabble as to who should eat out of the saucepan and who out of the coffee-bowl (the saucepan held more), and every day, to my secret anger, Boris gave in first and had the saucepan.