earthenware
Americannoun
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pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
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clay for making such pottery.
noun
Etymology
Origin of earthenware
Example Sentences
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Earthenware was used for serving and sipping in Europe and Asia for many thousands of years.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2023
Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924.
From Time Magazine Archive
Earthenware established 200 B. C. as the probable date of the civilization to which tombs made of squared and planed logs, found at depths of 24 to 42 ft. underground, belonged.
From Time Magazine Archive
In our Country-dialect Earthenware is called ‹Clome›; so the Boys of the Village used to shout out after him—‹Go back to the Potter, old Clome-face, and get baked over again.›
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Earthenware is also made in this place, and the Monday market, for corn, is considerable.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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