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• skal-d[=e]'n[=o], n. an Italian earthenware brazier:--pl. SCALDI'NI. [It.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• (pl. -ni pr. -e). Covered earthenware brazier used in Italy for warming the hands &c.

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry