gowpen

gowpen
noun /ˈɡaʊpən/
A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.

it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) [...].


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