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Saucepans

Scope note

Flat-bottomed, metal pans with a long, straight handle and a cover intended primarily for cooking. Also, pans with vertical, bulging, or ogee-shaped sides and often a pouring lip used, for example, for making sauces, melting butter, or the like; generally of brass or copper; sometimes of silver when intended primarily for use as a serving receptacle.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300042987

Broader Terms used

cookware

Term used for

sauce pans

Equivalent Terms used

saucepan

Created

13yrs ago

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