"finger bowl" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "finger bowls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "finger bowl (plural finger bowls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine",
          "text": "In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses."
      ],
      "id": "en-finger_bowl-en-noun-~qG8s18F",
      "links": [
        [
          "bowl",
          "bowl"
        ],
        [
          "rinse",
          "rinse"
        ],
        [
          "course",
          "course"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fingerbowl"
        },
        {
          "word": "finger-bowl"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "bowl to rinse one's fingers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Fingerschale"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "bowl to rinse one's fingers",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sciacquadita"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "finger bowl"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "finger bowls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "finger bowl (plural finger bowls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine",
          "text": "In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bowl",
          "bowl"
        ],
        [
          "rinse",
          "rinse"
        ],
        [
          "course",
          "course"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fingerbowl"
    },
    {
      "word": "finger-bowl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bowl to rinse one's fingers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fingerschale"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "bowl to rinse one's fingers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sciacquadita"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finger bowl"
}