Potteries
Americannoun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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The play is set in the Potteries and explores the lives of a group of female pottery workers determined to protect their cherished "Curl Friday" factory tradition.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
It was the latest blow to the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent, a city affectionately known as The Potteries.
From BBC • May 6, 2025
In 1928, May Rindge began building a great family mansion, Laudamus Hill, with lavish appointments like carved mahogany doors and tile from her own Malibu Potteries.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025
Other infrastructure has been scavenged from factories across the country once operated by companies including Hartstone Pottery, Haeger Potteries and Lenox.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022
One of the wanderers, who in the old times used to pitch on the vacant ground of the Potteries, so far fell into Gentile ways as to take a lodging-house and run it himself.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
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