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Platter   /plˈætər/   Listen
Platter

noun
1.
A large shallow dish used for serving food.
2.
Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.  Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record.



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"Platter" Quotes from Famous Books



... and shaking or rather moving it from place to place briskly, either to different sides or backward and forward just before the face, striking the breast with the other hand at the same time. The other musical instrument (if either of them deserve that name) was a hollow vessel of wood, like a platter, combined with the use of two sticks, on which one of our gentlemen saw a man performing. He held one of the sticks, about two feet long, as we do a fiddle with one hand, and struck it with the other, which was smaller, and resembled ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr
... the most selfish of canine gluttons, who has devoured the whole cheese, rind and all, prowling round the platter. ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... with pictures of Washington and Lincoln glowering from the wall in the man's full view behind the woman. The woman is reading a paper. The man is listening, but not looking at the woman, rather at his meal in front of him. A maid brings coffee cups on a platter.] ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... the top shelf of the cupboard was a silver lustre pitcher, a teapot of rose lustre, a huge willow platter with its quaint blue design, several pewter bowls, a plate with a crude peacock in bright colors—an array of antiques that would have awakened covetousness in the heart ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers
... grasping in strong hand the prophet's hair, He bears him gently through the rushing air, Still burdened with the platter's savoury load, Till o'er the lions' den at last they stayed And straightway to the starving youth displayed The food thus brought, ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius


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