chafing dish
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ dɪʃ/
:
plato de calentamiento
- We overordered and had several chafing dishes full of food from a local restaurant that hadn't been opened—called a couple of shelters hoping someone would want it, and no one could take it.
- a silver chafing dish
- chafing dishes on the table
Examples
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"The Abbe arranged a chafing dish filled with oil-soaked coals.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you are renting dishes, you can also look into chafing dishes, tables, and chairs if you think you will have a large affair.
Blog text (22) -
I came to get my chafing dish.
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What is a chafing dish for?
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The chafing dish is not yours.
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There was food in chafing dishes tended by a cocoa-colored man in a white jacket whom Peter seemed to know.
Fiction book (2000) -
A chafing dish...
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I have also been watching for the fancy "chafing dishes" at thrift stores - the ones with the candles underneath to keep the food warm.
Blog text (22) -
She slipped on a pair of oven mitts and lifted one of the chafing dishes filled with scrambled eggs, bacon, and sausage.
Fiction book (1998) -
At the buffet, the staff placed various dishes in the chafing dish to keep the food warm for guests.
Synonyms
A metal container that keeps cooked food warm at buffets
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'chafing' as skin soreness from rubbing and 'dish' as a plate-like vessel would not infer a heated serving pan from those meanings; the literal constituents give no cue to the device's function. The sense of 'chafing' that relates to heating is historical/archaic and specialized, so the MWE is idiomatic and unpredictable to typical learners.
Etymology
Chafing dish comes from an old word meaning 'to heat' and the simple word dish. Picture a metal dish sitting over a small flame or tiny heater to keep food hot at a buffet, so it means 'a pan used to keep food warm at the table'.