flatware
[flat-wair]
- utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- dishes or containers for the table that are more or less flat, as plates and saucers (distinguished from hollowware).
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Origin of flatware
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Contemporary Examples of flatware
Melanie walked past the table that had been set for two with fancy china and flatware and out to the Truman Balcony.
Historical Examples of flatware
She loved the flatware—it always made her think of a wedding—sometimes of her own.
Ptomaine StreetCarolyn Wells
She reveled in the white tiles, the white gloss paint, the eternal clearing-up and the clatter of flatware.
Ptomaine StreetCarolyn Wells
His flatware is usually distinguished by a shell motif, and gadroon edges finish and decorate many of his pieces.
Seaport in VirginiaGay Montague Moore
He frequently decorated his flatware with a refined etching or gravure, his hollow ware with reeding.
Seaport in VirginiaGay Montague Moore
Little of this, understandably, was likely to have been thrown away or lost, except for an occasional piece of flatware.
The Cultural History of Marlborough, VirginiaC. Malcolm Watkins
flatware
- cutlery
- any relatively flat tableware such as plates, saucers, etcCompare hollowware
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Word Origin and History for flatware
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