earthenware
pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
clay for making such pottery.
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How to use earthenware in a sentence
Directions: Preheat your oven to 400°F. Place the potatoes, celeriac and onion in an earthenware-type baking dish.
Fanchon's grandmother stirs up the drowsy fire; then she breaks the eggs on the black earthenware platter.
Child Life In Town And Country | Anatole FrancePour water in an earthenware jar, place the plates in it and turn the plug in a lamp socket.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousPutting in front of them an earthenware jar, made to the width of the mine,The Romans smoked out.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) | PolybiusIn front are the footlights, a row of earthenware bowls filled with oil, with a lighted wick floating in each one.
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. Mitton
As they had no earthenware vessels, they had no idea that water could be heated.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for earthenware
/ (ˈɜːθənˌwɛə) /
vessels, etc, made of baked clay
(as adjective): an earthenware pot
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