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They even provide them for you when you order a cup of tea on the train ... very elegant.
You see something like this all the time in Russia, where they drink hot tea in a glass (called стакан – stakan) which you hold with a metal holder, called подстаканник – podstakannik, which means "under-stakan-device". I wonder if they got this from the Muslim Tatars who ruled Russia in the Middle Ages, and if so, maybe this podstakannik is cousin to the zarf.
See finjan (the handleless coffee cup that fits inside a zarf).
the thing that goes around a coffee cup so that you don't burn your fingers