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

Example Sentences

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

Every Saturday night I brought home my fifteen dollars, and Ruth took out three for the rent, five for household expenses, and put seven in the ginger jar.

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

The big blob of an object that seems to have been suggested by a Gargantuan ginger jar, and to be put in for tropical effect, as also a set of wooden bananas, may be forgiven.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins