Potteries

[ pot-uh-reez ]

/ ˈpɒt ə riz /

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noun

the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.

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Also called Five Towns .

Compare Stoke-on-Trent.

Words nearby Potteries

Pott, pottage, potted, potter, Potteresque, Potteries, potter's clay, Potter's facies, potter's field, Potter's syndrome, potter's wheel

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How to use Potteries in a sentence

Across the river was the hunched sky-line of Doulton's potteries, and a kiln flared redly.
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells
This was the Staffordshire, which we had named for the great potteries in England from which we got so much of our import freight.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands|George Francis Train
Some deep metaphysician of the potteries, who might have added that they have also quick eyes, and sometimes silent tongues.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II|Various
Mortlake has lost its tapestry works and its potteries, but it has retained its brewery.
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.|Anonymous

A manufactory of pottery flourished here from about 1650 to 1780, but there were also potteries early in the 16th century.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods|William Chaffers

British Dictionary definitions for Potteries

Potteries

/ (ˈpɒtərɪz) /

pl n

the Potteries (sometimes functioning as singular) a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated

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