aluminumware
aluminumware noun: articles made from aluminum.
Noun
aluminumware (uncountable)
- Articles made from aluminum.
- Gates Hardware Co. / Builders’ Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, Graniteware, Aluminumware, Wood Fiber Goods.1895 March 24, Springfield Daily Republican, volume III, Springfield, Mo., page 4
- While enameled ware maintained popularity for many years (well into the 1930s), aluminumware and glass oven-to-table Pyrex cookware were also being used before 1920.1995, Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise, Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 178
Examples of aluminumware in a sentence
- Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic.1998, Margaret Winchell, Armed with Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia, Hermitage Publishers, →ISBN, page 54:
- It wasn’t so great, just a big, noisy room filled with the clinking of aluminumware on cheap food service dishes.2010, Larry Enright, Four Years from Home, →ISBN, page 212:
Forms of aluminumware
| alternative form | aluminiumware |
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Origin of aluminumware
From aluminum + -ware.
Questions about aluminumware
- What does aluminumware mean?
- Aluminumware means articles made from aluminum.
- How do you use aluminumware in a sentence?
- Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic.
- What part of speech is aluminumware?
- Aluminumware is a noun.
Words near aluminumware in the dictionary
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