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china-ware

china-ware is the alternative form of chinaware.

Meaning of chinaware

Noun

chinaware (countable and uncountable, plural chinawares)

  1. Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
    • According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan, page 148
    Synonyms:
    china

Forms of china-ware

pluralchina-wares

Questions about china-ware

What is china-ware the alternative form of?
China-ware is the alternative form of chinaware.

Words near china-ware in the dictionary

  1. China's final warning
  2. China's final warnings
  3. China's Sorrow
  4. china-root
  5. china-roots
  6. china-ware
  7. china-wares
  8. chinaball
  9. chinaballs
  10. chinaberries
  11. chinaberry

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