Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pottery made from a porous clay that is fired at relatively low temperatures. Faience, delft, and majolica are examples of earthenware.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Vessels or other objects of clay (whether alone or mixed with other mineral substances) baked or fired in a kiln, or more rarely sun-dried or otherwise prepared without firing. The term is often restricted to the coarser qualities, as distinguished from
porcelain and stoneware and fromterra-cotta . In this sense earthenware may be known from porcelain by its opacity, and from stoneware by its porosity, which latter quality may be recognized by touching a fracture with the tongue, when the tongue will adhere to the porous earthenware, but not to stoneware. Earthenware may be either unglazed, as bricks, ordinary flower-pots, etc., or enameled. Seedelf , faience, majolica.
Wiktionary
- n. ceramics An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See crockery, pottery, stoneware, and porcelain.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat
Etymologies
- The first recorded appearance in 1673. Compound of earthen and ware. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now, except for the summer months, there are tourists almost daily, more than 300 potters and the earthenware is all signed.”
“Owing to lack of specificity in popular parlance earthenware is often referred to popularly as china but never as bone china.”
“The museum's collection of pre-Columbian earthenware is outstanding and the museum is not so huge as to overwhelm the casual visitor.”
“British earthenware is also an excellent product entirely suitable for its purpose and appreciably less costly.”
“I took the pint mug of white earthenware from the shelf behind her.”
“The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.”
“Products called earthenware, whiteware, low-temperature ceramics, and terra cotta are all fired in the range of 900-1100°C.”
“What is more worthy of note is the credulity with which he swallows the fabulous inventions of the "monkish chroniclers" when set before him in English earthenware.”
“Some of the hills are remarkable for a fine red earth, which I take to be the same with that of which the inhabitants of Chili make their earthenware, which is almost as beautiful as the red porcelain of China.”
“- low temperature from 900-1100°C, called earthenware;”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘earthenware’.
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-Ware Ever
Shareware and its friends.
shareware, cardware, postcardware, beerware, emailware, freeware, otherware, requestware, abandonware, careware, catware, donateware and 136 more...
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art & art historical
chiaroscuro, architrave, column, capital, corinthian, dorice, entablature, frieze, ionic, sketch, abecedarian, abstraction and 124 more...
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Earth Words Are Easy
earth, earthquake, earthly, earthquakes, earthy, earthen, earths, earthenware, earth-shattering, earthworks, earthworms, earthbound and 43 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
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Old English Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quell, bower, keen, alderman, cleanser, sallow, gristle, nestle, abide, gospel, nether, farthing and 84 more...
Tweets
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