ewers in English
noun
1
a large jug with a wide mouth, formerly used for carrying water for someone to wash in.
Various black-clad servants bustled about the room and began carrying in trays of food and ewers of water and wine.
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1. Pair of 18th Century English Creamware Ewers after an Ancient Roman Design Twelve Creamware Dinner Plates with Yellow Neoclassical Borders Made circa 1800 12 Wedgwood Creamware Dessert …
2. But, at all alike, there would generally be among the service books one or more beautiful Antiphonals, richly illuminated and adorned with massively embossed covers; and an additional temptation was thus presented to the despoiler, when the dissolution came, besides that of the gold and silver chalices, censers, crosses, ewers and candlesticks