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chaffing-dish

chaffing-dish is the alternative form of chafing dish.

Meaning of chafing dish

Noun

chafing dish (plural chafing dishes)

  1. Any of several devices, involving a pan and a heater, used to warm food at the table, or to keep it warm.

Forms of chaffing-dish

pluralchaffing-dishes

Questions about chaffing-dish

What is chaffing-dish the alternative form of?
Chaffing-dish is the alternative form of chafing dish.

Words near chaffing-dish in the dictionary

  1. chaffinches
  2. chaffiness
  3. chaffing
  4. chaffing dish
  5. chaffing dishes
  6. chaffing-dish
  7. chaffing-dishes
  8. chaffingly
  9. chaffings
  10. Chaffins
  11. Chaffinses

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