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chafing dish
noun
[ ˈtʃeɪfɪŋ dɪʃ ]
• a cooking pot with an outer pan of hot water, used for keeping food warm.
Origin:
late 15th century: from the original (now obsolete) sense of chafe ‘become warm, warm up’.
