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Kitchen device, attractive item, thing familiar to plumbers (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dishwasher

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'kitchen device' is the definition.
'dishwasher' can be an answer for 'device' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the 'kitchen' bit.

'attractive item thing familiar to plumbers' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'item' could be 'dish' (I have seen 'Item of food ' mean 'dish' so perhaps 'item' could also mean 'dish') and 'dish' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'washer' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for dishwasher that I've seen before include "kitchen helper" , "Kitchen item" , "Appliance for cleaning plates, cutlery etc" , "Kitchen machine" , "cleaner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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