any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities
2. Also called: ironstone china
a hard white stoneware
Word origin
[1515–25; iron + stone]This word is first recorded in the period 1515–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cabala, domestic, exhaust, fairway, unload
Examples of 'ironstone' in a sentence
ironstone
It has little winding streets of ironstone houses with immaculately thatched roofs - really the most pert you've ever seen.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The material appears to be the local ironstone, the lettering only moderately accomplished, the setting-out deplorable.