English

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Earthenware pottery

Etymology

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From earthen +‎ -ware, first recorded appearance in 1673.[1]

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Noun

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earthenware (countable and uncountable, plural earthenwares)

  1. (ceramics, often attributive) An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.
    Coordinate term: stoneware
    earthenware bowl

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  1. ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
  2. ^ earthenware”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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