WARMING PAN Definition & Meaning

warming pan

noun

a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.

warming pan

noun

a pan, often of copper and having a long handle, filled with hot coals or hot water and formerly drawn over the sheets to warm a bed

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of warming pan¹

First recorded in 1565–75

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First, will the forecast El Niño and Atlantic warming pan out?

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“Good! Good!” cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned.

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Mercifully, SanJuanna had taken the chill off the sheets with a warming pan.

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Every night she shrank from the moment when she and Judith must make the dread ascent to the upstairs chamber with only the meager comfort of a warming pan.

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Someone — a house-elf, no doubt — had placed warming pans between the sheets.

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warm-hearted warminster broom

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