tinware
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tinware
Example Sentences
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Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale.
From Time Magazine Archive
His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his customers was Dimestore Pioneer Frank W. Woolworth, to whom Kresge sold a sizable order of tinware.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its gaily painted kitchen cabinets, dower chests, desks and tables, Bethlehem painted glass, grotesque Germanic Toby jugs and brightly colored tinware are far more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is mostly a lot of tinware and plated stuff, and the plating is worn off, and the hieroglyphics, and it was never anything more than a lot of silly medals in the beginning.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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