rice bowl


noun

a small bowl for eating rice out of, esp a decorative one made of china or porcelain
a fertile rice-producing region

Example sentences from the Web for rice bowl

  • Facing the Snorter, he spat in his face, with a noise like thunder, a piece of bezoar as large as a rice-bowl.

    Myths and Legends of China |E. T. C. Werner
  • Foh-Kyung set down his rice-bowl from his left hand and his ivory chop-sticks from his right.

  • That does not matter, for each one has his own rice-bowl on the floor in front of him.

    Our Little Siamese Cousin |Mary Hazelton Wade