as in pitcher
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
a silver ewer in an elaborately ornamented style
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Recent Examples of ewer
Somewhere between Venice and Paris, just as afternoon tea was served—raspberry tartlets and biscotti squisiti, coffee poured from silver ewers into porcelain cups—JR, the French artist known for his public installations, was starting to freak out.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Inspired by antiques like cobalt glass, Egyptian glass ewers and hotel breakfast sets and mid-20th-century Italian glassware, Jacobsen came up with the Continental Collection.
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Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
19 Nov. 2025
Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.
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Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Sep. 2024
Among these are an Indo-Portuguese brass and mother-of-pearl ewer from the early 17th century, and Carolina’s favorite: a portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, a daughter of a large, upper-class Spanish family.
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Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole Demarco Megan O’Sullivan,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2024
The display opens with a few ancient artifacts, including a 2nd-century Roman ewer that belongs to another Washington mansion turned museum: the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Georgetown.
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Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
26 June 2023
Among the biggest sellers was a blue and white vessel known as a ewer, which sold for 107.5 million Hong Kong dollars ($13.7 million).
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Oscar Holland,
CNN,
10 Apr. 2023
Dating back to more than 4,000 years ago, the golden ewer is believed by experts to have been made as a funerary gift by Haitian people of Anatolia in the 3rd century B.C.E.
The artifact came into the museum’s collection as a gift from its previous owner.
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Angelica Villa For Artnews,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2021
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Inspired by antiques like cobalt glass, Egyptian glass ewers and hotel breakfast sets and mid-20th-century Italian glassware, Jacobsen came up with the Continental Collection.
—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
19 Nov. 2025
Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
—
Lisa Wong MacAbasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.
—
Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Sep. 2024
Among these are an Indo-Portuguese brass and mother-of-pearl ewer from the early 17th century, and Carolina’s favorite: a portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, a daughter of a large, upper-class Spanish family.
—
Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole Demarco Megan O’Sullivan,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2024
The display opens with a few ancient artifacts, including a 2nd-century Roman ewer that belongs to another Washington mansion turned museum: the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Georgetown.
—
Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
26 June 2023
Among the biggest sellers was a blue and white vessel known as a ewer, which sold for 107.5 million Hong Kong dollars ($13.7 million).
—
Oscar Holland,
CNN,
10 Apr. 2023
Dating back to more than 4,000 years ago, the golden ewer is believed by experts to have been made as a funerary gift by Haitian people of Anatolia in the 3rd century B.C.E.
The artifact came into the museum’s collection as a gift from its previous owner.
—
Angelica Villa For Artnews,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ewer
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Suzuki became the first player to homer twice off Misiorowski since the pitcher’s MLB debut in 2025, according to ESPN Insights.
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Green earned a reputation with the Padres for being an aggressive in-game manager, willing to pull starting pitchers and deploy relievers with urgency.
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Right now, Prime members can score exclusive savings and summer deals on YETI tumblers, coolers, jugs, backpacks and more when shopping on Amazon.
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Just last week, Kiki’s—a Greek spot known for its platters and $25 jugs of wine—was seized by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, which says the restaurant’s LLC and one of its owners owe more than $1 million in taxes.
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Enjoy a second cup of your morning brew and count your blessings.
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Take all the fuss out of making your morning cup of coffee with this convenient pod coffee maker.
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After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later.
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No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.
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The day after the crash, the boat was found to contain 61 empty and partially empty booze bottles and cans, after FWC officers pulled the boat from the bay.
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More than 11,000 bottles of the blood pressure medication chlorthalidone have been recalled, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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“Ewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ewer. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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