chafing dish

[ chey-fing ]

/ ˈtʃeɪ fɪŋ /

an apparatus consisting of a metal dish with a lamp or heating appliance beneath it, for cooking food or keeping it hot at the table.

a vessel that holds charcoal or the like, for heating anything set over it.

Origin of chafing dish

1400–50; late Middle English chafing warming (see chafe, -ing¹)

The chafing-dish buffet is something very convenient and attractive for the dining room.

Mission Furniture |H. H. Windsor
"Tell us about it, Ralph," said Duncan, as he emptied the cubes of cheese into the chafing-dish.

Stanford Stories |Charles K. Field
At each end of the table was a chafing-dish, and in the center was a huge cabbage surmounted by two natural-looking bunnies.

The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted |Katharine Ellis Barrett
We don't make them in the chafing-dish though, as I thought when I first went there.

The Annals of Ann |Kate Trimble Sharber

A current of lukewarm air, coming from the chafing-dish, escapes through the top.

The Life of the Spider |J. Henri Fabre

chafing dish

/ (ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ) /

a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table