ginger jar

American  

noun

1. a Chinese ceramic jar having a wide mouth, a globular body, and a dome-shaped cover.

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Etymology

Origin of ginger jar

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

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ginger jar

Gibson, whose line of boldly patterned ginger jar lamps and tole trays tends toward the traditional, still likes a little boho style in her country picnics.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016

Then how could a yellow ginger jar turn everything inside me upside down?

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

My father unwrapped the package and took out a very large ginger jar.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

I looked at Boss, and wondered whether in Indiana it were felony to milk another man's cow in his absence, with no ginger jar at hand, into which to drop a compensatory dime.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites

As I said, with that first dollar in the ginger jar representing the first actual saving I had ever effected in my whole life, my imagination became fired with new plans.

From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton

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