What is "salvers"

Usage examples of "salvers".

The chests at her feet were loaded with a mass of jewelled trash--diamante anklets, gilt clasps, tiaras and chains of zircon, rhinestone necklaces and pendants, huge earrings of cultured pearl, overflowing from one chest to another and spilling onto the salvers placed on the floor like vessels to catch a quicksilver rainfall.

He clapped his hands, and immediately a small procession of Malay slaves appeared carrying silver salvers of choice morsels of food, and decanters of wine and spirits.

Dorian helped Sir Guy to tit bits from huge salvers, which overflowed with saffron rice, tender lamb and baked fish, then waved away what remained to be taken to his retinue seated in ranks outside the pavilion.

The metal shelves around the side of the hold were loaded with smaller bric a brac: votive urns, goblets, shields and salvers, pieces of decorative armour, ceremonial inkstands and the like.

That one was equally vast, and in its middle was a table the size of the Florilegium's pista—a ring of tables, actually, linen-clothed and crowded with sterling silver samovars, crystal decanters, stacks of gold-inlaid porcelain tableware, snowy serviettes, silver flatware, and salvers and tureens and bowls displaying what appeared to be every finest sort of viand that ever came from a kitchen.

She nodded toward the tray of covered salvers waiting on the small table beside the door.