EARTHENWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earthenware mean? 

• EARTHENWARE (noun)
  The noun EARTHENWARE has 1 sense:

1. ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat

  Familiarity information: EARTHENWARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARTHENWARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("earthenware" is a kind of...):

ceramic ware (utensils made from ceramic material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earthenware"):

delft (a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration)

faience (glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors)

maiolica; majolica (highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide)

terra cotta (a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware)

Samian ware; terra sigillata (earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos)

 Context examples 

As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Who would have thought you would have been so silly, said he, as to put an earthenware stall in the corner of the market, where everybody passes? but let us have no more crying; I see you are not fit for this sort of work, so I have been to the king’s palace, and asked if they did not want a kitchen-maid; and they say they will take you, and there you will have plenty to eat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

His son and his son’s wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)