What is "punchbowls"

Usage examples of "punchbowls".

In the cen­ter of the floor was a table supporting two cut-glass punchbowls, one vast and grand, the other smaller and plainer.

The tables are laden with punchbowls, wine bottles, fine crystal and delicacies of all kinds.

Suzette replied, steering him around the couples sitting out the dance and crowding to the punchbowls and buffets.