redware

¹ American  

[red-wair] / ˈrɛdˌwɛər /

noun

Ceramics.

1. an early American earthenware made from red clay.

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redware ² American  

[red-wair] / ˈrɛdˌwɛər /

noun

1. a large brown seaweed, Laminaria digitata, common off northern Atlantic coasts.

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redware British  

/ ˈrɛdˌwɛə /

noun

1. another name for kelp

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Etymology

Origin of redware¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; red ¹ + ware ¹

Origin of redware²

First recorded in 1700–10; red ¹ + dialectal ware ( Middle English; Old English wār “seaweed”; see wire)

Example Sentences

It makes for an unusual memento mori — though not, perhaps, as strange as a 19th-century yellow-glazed redware flask in the shape of an English outhouse.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Steve: The rock duo Best Coast, the redware pottery of Lauren Mundy, and the late Peter Kaplan, celebrated editor of The New York Observer.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2013

English redware with marbled slip decoration, 1625-50 period or earlier, unearthed at Jamestown.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.