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Definition of chafing dish noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

chafing dish

noun
 
/ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ dɪʃ/
 
/ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ dɪʃ/
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  1. a metal pan used for keeping food warm at the table
    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from the original (now obsolete) sense of chafe ‘become warm, warm up’.
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