| 单词 | crockery |
| 释义 | crockery (once / 3801 pages) n Dishes — plates, bowls, and cups — are crockery. If you don't have a dishwasher, you'll have to wash all the crockery from your dinner party by hand. Crockery most often refers to everyday ceramic tableware, rather than fine, expensive china. You'll set the table with crockery when the occasion is too formal for paper plates but not fancy enough for porcelain. The word crockery arose in the eighteenth century from the now-obsolete crocker, or "potter," which in turn came from the Old English croc, "pot or vessel." WORD FAMILYcrockery: crockeries USAGE EXAMPLESHe nearly died of tetanus a few years ago after getting cut by broken crockery in a customer’s latrine. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) The Potus seal appears on crockery, napkin rings and seatbelts. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) The crockery was heavy and brown and the air was always thick with fag smoke. The Guardian(Nov 13, 2016) n tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper dishware Holy Grail (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper china, chinaware dishware made of high quality porcelain cupa small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle disha piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food egg cup, eggcupdishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg ovenwareheat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served beakera cup (usually without a handle) bowla dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods butter disha small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table casserolelarge deep dish in which food can be cooked and served chalice, gobleta bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup coffee cupa cup from which coffee is drunk coquillea dish in the form of a scallop shell Dixie cup, paper cupa disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks grace cupcup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal boat, gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboata dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce cylix, kylixa shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece moustache cup, mustache cupa drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink Petri disha shallow dish used to culture bacteria ramekin, ramequina small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions scyphusan ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base serving disha dish used for serving food sugar bowla dish in which sugar is served teacupa cup from which tea is drunk watch glasslaboratory glassware; a shallow glass dish used as an evaporating surface or to cover a beaker willow-pattern, willowwarechinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river tableware articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) |
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