Have a great Tuesday!

[med_cat]

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[benicek]

I remember reading translated Russian novels when I was a teenager and being baffled by the word 'samovar' that kept cropping up, and which was evidently untranslatable (though later I learned some Czech and realised it just meant 'self boiler'). I looked it up in a dictionary and it told me what a samovar did, but there was no picture. The internet did not yet exist and so I had to imagine what one looked like for some years until I finally saw one.

[med_cat]

Interesting story :)

We had a samovar (an electric stainless steel one), never used it though. We have a decoratively painted coppertone one now, and haven't used it either ;)