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warming pan
noun
A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
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In the past, in less scientifically advanced times, the best verification of royal legitimacy was for a senior official to be present at a royal birth to ensure no sleight of hand with a warming pan to substitute a boy for a girl.
The warming pan at Bryn sends Drabble into a fascinating riff on the nature of our post-industrial longing for an authentic cottage-dwelling past.
At his birth it was widely and erroneously believed that he was an impostor who was slipped into the queen's bed in a warming pan in order to provide a successor to the Roman Catholic monarch.
It is cheap, yes, but after the food has been sitting in a warming pan for a couple of hours, the flavor and life are usually all wrung out.
Threatened by a Catholic dynasty, several influential Protestants claimed the child was "supposititious" and had been smuggled into the Queen's bedchamber in a warming pan.
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Decoration was applied to bowls, basins, mugs, vases, mortars, braziers, warming pans, candlesticks, smoking utensils, inkstands, jewel cases, Qurʾān holders, and mosque lamps.
If you want to sit in front of an array of screens showing empty warming pans sitting on a worktop, this is the place to go.
A sociologist once calculated that each family in the original 13 colonies must have owned at least 200 chairs and 700 warming pans in order to supply today's antiques market.
Next, according to the Evening Standard, he "clashed experimentally with pots and warming pans, played with pencils on Venetian glass phials, turned wire baskets into harps", and even resorted to a plastic trumpet to compose a suitable score.
Take the olive oil and pour it onto the warmed pan.
On the top floor of the 1904 Beaux-Arts building, firefighters in T-shirts emblazoned with their engine or ladder number stood at a table lined with aluminum warming pans.
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