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[ pot-uh-ree ] / ˈpɒt ə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pottery ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural pot·ter·ies.ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware. the art or business of a potter; ceramics. a place where earthen pots or vessels are made. Origin of potteryFirst recorded in 1475–85; potter1 + -y3 Words nearby potteryPotter's facies, potter's field, Potter's syndrome, potter's wheel, potter wasp, pottery, potting shed, potting soil, pottle, potto, Pott's abscess Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for potteryThis tea caddy is rather splendid Much of the pottery is gilded in 22 carat gold leaf. New Royal China Alert|Tom Sykes|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST The fork end was used to lift sticky sweetmeats out of pottery jars; the spoon end was used to scoop up the luscious syrup. The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’|Bee Wilson|October 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST As it has come down to us “on the borders of pottery and textiles, the meander resembles a maze or labyrinth.” This Week’s Hot Reads: April 9, 2012|Nicholas Mancusi, Malcolm Jones|April 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST FEED Projects has partnered with companies including Whole Foods Market, Barnes Noble, HSN, Disney, and Pottery Barn. 2012 Summit: Who's On Stage||March 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Recently, however, he had left his job to focus on pottery making. Is There a Suicide Gene?|Casey Schwartz|March 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST You have reproduced my room there with hardly a change, save the pictures and the pottery. A Tatter of Scarlet|S. R. Crockett I could find no remains of masonry, nor any fragments of inscribed bricks, pottery, or sculptured alabaster. Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon|Austen H. Layard In others we find remains of pottery evidently manufactured on the spot in larger quantities than the village could use. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler A great advance in the manufacture of pottery was achieved during the Pyramid Age, when the potter's wheel was invented. The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various A complete series of pottery belonging to this tomb is given in Pl. Five Years' Explorations at Thebes|George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Carnarvon
British Dictionary definitions for pottery
noun plural -teriesarticles, vessels, etc, made from earthenware and dried and baked in a kiln a place where such articles are made the craft or business of making such articles Other words from potteryRelated adjective: fictileWord Origin for potteryC15: from Old French poterie, from potier potter, from pot pot 1 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to potterycrockery, porcelain, earthenware, ceramics, firing, stoneware, glazing, terra cotta |