finger bowl

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   small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table

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Questions about finger bowl

What does finger bowl mean?

finger bowl means "small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table".

Is finger bowl a common word?

finger bowl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.