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Percolator   /pˈərkəlˌeɪtər/   Listen
Percolator

noun
1.
A coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans.






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"Percolator" Quotes from Famous Books



... wife invariably made the after-dinner coffee in a percolator that stood on the sideboard. On the night in question, she had boiled the coffee, but none of the servants had seen her draw it from the percolator or serve it in the cups. But all of them assert that for a year or more it had been the wife's ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin

... him in his room, as usual; but he did not make his normal healthy raid upon the dainty tray: the food remained untouched, and he sustained himself upon coffee—four cups of it, which left nothing of value inside the glistening little percolator. During this process he heard his mother being summoned to the telephone in the hall, not far from his door, and then her voice responding: "Yes? Oh, it's you! Indeed I should!... Of course.. .. Then I'll expect you about three... Yes. Good-bye till then." A few ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington



Words linked to "Percolator" :   coffeepot, percolate



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