Definition of "soup-plate" []

• A rather large deep plate used for serving soup. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "China soup-plate, perforated and strung on coconut sennit, suspended from about his neck so that it rested flat on his chest and half-concealed the generous swell of muscles."
• "Nor was he any more ridiculous because of the soup-plate than was he ludicrous because of his nakedness."
• "No man of Malaita he had ever heard of possessed an unbroken soup-plate."