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Definition of Dessert spoon
1. Noun. A spoon larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon.
Definition of Dessert spoon
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dessertspoon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dessert Spoon
Literary usage of Dessert spoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia... With Numerous by N. K. M. Lee (1832)
"... add to it a pound of sifted sugar, a dessert-spoon ful of powdered cinnamon,
and a sufficient quantity of flour to make it into a paste; ..."
2. The Practical Hotel Steward by John Tellman (1913)
"dessert spoon and lork for service. Same as assorted fruit. as, sliced: Two If
large; three If Cut into thin slices lengthwise; serve In fruit saucer small ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"As much as a table-spoon will hold; as a customary measure, half a fluid- ounce,
being of about twice the capacity of a dessert-spoon, and four times that ..."
4. Manners and Rules of Good Society, Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by Member of the aristocracy (1888)
"Soup should be eaten with a table-spoon and not with a dessert-spoon, it would
be out of place to use a dessert-spoon for that purpose. ..."
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