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  • n  a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea

  • Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar.
  • The image that flickered onto Moscow TV screens last week showed an awkward, eight-wheeled contraption that looked somewhat like the top half of a huge samovar.
  • Khrushchev, scarcely looking at Tito's soldiers, hopped along beside his slightly taller host, talking with his hands, anxious to waste not a moment in selling his samovar.
News & Articles

  • Tea cocktails and tea-infused dishes are latest trend
    One wouldn't expect the owner of a small chain of tea-centric restaurants to be particularly thrilled about Starbucks' entry into the tea market, with its purchase of the Teavana chain last year, but Jesse Jacobs, the owner of San Francisco's three Samovar Tea Lounges is surprisingly enthusiastic about it.
    Jan. 11, 2014 - Silver City Sun-News
Quotes

  • Jaya Bachchan in CNN-IBN
    I'm letting out a secret. The first date that my husband took me out for is here (Cafe Samovar). That's all he could afford,said Jaya.
  • Bob Gaudio in Chicago Sun-Times
    We met Bob at a building I'm looking at right now, 1650 Broadway. But what's a bit of a secret is the Russian Samovar [256 W. 52nd at Eighth Avenue, www. russiansamovar.com],said Gaudio, who composed the music for "Jersey Boys." "It's the...

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