amberware

English edit

Etymology edit

From amber +‎ -ware.

Noun edit

amberware (uncountable)

Articles made from amber.
- 1897 March 30, Democrat and Chronicle, volume 65, number 89, Rochester, N.Y., page 4, column 2:
  Owing to a press of orders the Clyde Glass Works will commence work on amberware on Thursday next.
- 1913 February 17, The Los Angeles Times, part II, page 7:
  And in addition to the ivory inlaid in gold figurings— / —are some of opalescent pearl, elegantly patterned in inlaid designs of silver and blue enamel! And the fashionable amberware, inlaid with gold.
- 1951 September–October, “Do You Know-About Amber?”, in Polish Foreign Trade, number 7, Warsaw: The Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, page 30:
  High-class cut amberware requires special processing. […] The export of amberware is in the hands of ”VARIMEX”, Polish Company for Foreign Trade, Wilcza 50/52, Warsaw.
- 1985, Olgierd Budrewicz, Introduction to Poland, Miami, Fla.: The American Institute of Polish Culture, →LCCN, page 100:
  Numerous examples of Polish amberware can be seen in museums in Malbork, Gdansk, Slupsk and elsewhere.
- 1985, Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., edited by Teresa Turvey and Denise Branch Wydra, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Italy, 1985, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 216:
  Notice the amberware; Aquileia was famous for its amber, a tradition later exported to Venice to become the basis of its famous glass industry.
- 2009, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, DK, →ISBN, page 221:
  It was once Vilnius’s commercial centre but today the street is popular with visitors hunting for amberware and other local products.