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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

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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)

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