warming pan
Noun
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Noun
warming pan (plural warming pans)
- A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, II. i. 81:
- Good / Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the / office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, II. i. 81:
- (figurative, dated) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.
- Italian: scaldaletto
- Spanish: mundillo
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