vase
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A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
The calyx of a plant.
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Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?
Do not throw a stone at the mouse and break the precious vase.
He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.