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earthenware|ˈɜːθ(ə)nwɛə(r)|
[f. earthen a. + ware; until 19th c. often written as two words.]
1. Vessels or other objects made of baked clay.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. 29 The Town [Delft] is noted for good earthen Ware, as Stone-jugs, Pots, etc. 1727De Foe Eng. Tradesm. xxvi. (1841) I. 267 Earthenware from Stafford, Nottingham, and Kent. 1792Phil. Trans. LXXXII. 270 When earthen ware is mentioned in this paper, the cream-coloured or queen's ware is meant. 1879J. J. Young Ceram. Art 30 The manufacture of earthen-ware.
b. In pl. Kinds of earthenware.
1832G. Porter Porcelain i. 19 Efforts..for improving the quality of common earthenwares made in Staffordshire.
2. The material of which such vessels are made.
1799Med. Jrnl. I. 295 Pour it into a jar of stone or earthen⁓ware. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) Introd. 40 A trough of earthen-ware, divided in its length by numerous partitions of the same material. 1873Watts Fownes' Chem. 388 Earthenware is made from a white secondary clay.
3. attrib. and in comb., as earthenware vessel, earthenware-dealer, earthenware-man.
1812J. & H. Smith Rej. Addr. v. (1873) 41 England is a large earthenware pipkin. 1813Examiner 24 May 329/1 J. Downes, High Holborn, earthenwareman. 1868Geo. Eliot F. Holt 53 The light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candlestick. |