earthenware

[ur-thuhn-wair]

noun

1. pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.

2. clay for making such pottery.

earthenware

/ ˈɜːθənˌwɛə /

noun

1. 1. vessels, etc, made of baked clay

   2. ( as adjective )

      an earthenware pot

Word History and Origins

Origin of earthenware¹

First recorded in 1640–50; earthen + ware ¹

Example Sentences

Both the paintings and the earthenware are scribbled with an illegible stream of consciousness poetry that Finley is channeling while making the work — often only visible in texture when the light hits right.

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Highly hierarchical, with powerful masters of time who encoded astronomical knowledge in the Nebra Sky Disc, they developed specialised crafts, such as earthenware.

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She calls the preparation a “tian,” a French Provençal term that refers to a shallow round earthenware vessel, as well as the dishes baked in it.

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Or will we keep moving away from the Earth, denying her very existence and value, until she takes over everything, wrapping us in her green earthenware?

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Ancient Koreans used the chill of winter to ferment vegetables by burying them in the ground in earthenware ceramic jars called onggi.

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Related Words

• ceramics 
• stoneware