tinware
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of tinware
Example Sentences
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Winners who came to claim their prizes received empty bottles or blackened tinware from the store’s inventory of old junk.
From The New Yorker
“They are soon glad enough, however, to retreat from the shower of whisky, beer and pop bottles and dilapidated tinware.”
From Washington Post
But before all that, Lininger was a successful tinware salesman in Peru, Illinois.
From Washington Times
This antique-hunting show’s 22nd season kicks off with an episode in Harrisburg, Pa., with rare objects including a Pennsylvania Dutch tinware coffee pot.
From New York Times
Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the durable, light tinware once considered a poor man’s ceramic.
From Washington Post
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