OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28279

spittoon

/spɪˈtuːn/
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A receptacle for spit (saliva); especially, one used by people using chewing tobacco or snuff.
For use in public institutions, in corridors and grounds, I would recommend an elevated spittoon, which has numerous advantages over the ordinary spittoon placed on the floor.
In the only arm-chair which the apartment boasted—one of the legs of which was shorter than the other three, and to remedy that defect was ingeniously stuck into an iron spittoon—s…
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