Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Iron utensils with a mottled enamel resembling granite.
- noun Earthenware with a speckled glaze resembling granite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any fine pottery decorated by a more or less exact imitation of the speckled surface of granite; specifically, one of Josiah Wedgwood's pebble-wares, described by him in 1770 as “barely sprinkled with blue” and ornaments gilt.” See
pebbleware . - noun A fine pottery similar to ironstone china, referring to its supposed hardness.
- noun A variety of enameled ironware much used for utensils of cookery, in which the enamel is gray and stone-like, and very durable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ironware that has been coated with a layer ofvitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resemblinggranite . - noun
Pottery with the same type of enamel coating.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of stone-grey enamelware
Etymologies
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Examples
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I bought knives, forks, and spoons, graniteware dishes and mugs.
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The ones I bought were the speckled blue graniteware variety.
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But I think what you are referring to are Italian style espresso cups in enamel, presumably more decorative than plain graniteware.
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And I have that same graniteware canning pot, purchased this year to make cherry jam.
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I furnished the coffee, custom-ground Colombian beans brewed in a fifties-era graniteware coffeepot with the original Bakelite knob.
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I furnished the coffee, custom-ground Colombian beans brewed in a fifties-era graniteware coffeepot with the original Bakelite knob.
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She frowned and watched as he poured some coffee from a gray-speckied graniteware pot.
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Montana lined one of the graniteware pans with a blanket and gently placed the weakest chicks inside.
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He started a fire, then poured water from his canteen into the small, graniteware coffeepot he carried with him.
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He started a fire, then poured water from his canteen into the small, graniteware coffeepot he carried with him.
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