sugar bowl

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sugar bowl

noun sugar bowls

  1. A small receptacle for serving sugar on a table or on a tray.

    Similar: sucrier, sugar basin

  2. The legal maxim that searches must be limited to areas which could reasonably contain evidence relevant to the purpose for which the search warrant was granted. (The maxim is often quoted as "if you are looking for stolen televisions, you cannot look in sugar bowls")

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noun small receptacle for serving sugar on a table

Españolazucarero
Portuguêsaçucareiro
Françaissucrier
DeutschZuckerschale
Italianozuccheriera
Ελληνικάζαχαριέρα zachariéra
Românăzaharniță
Русскийса́харница sáxarnica
العربيةسُكَّرِيَّة sukkariyya

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@misc{sugar_bowl_2026,
  title = {sugar bowl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sugar%20bowl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}