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granitewares

granitewares is the plural of graniteware.

Meaning of graniteware

Noun

graniteware (countable and uncountable, plural granitewares)

  1. Ironware that has been coated with a layer of vitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resembling granite.
    • The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the sme material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some...1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 158
  2. Pottery with the same type of enamel coating.

Questions about granitewares

What is granitewares the plural of?
Granitewares is the plural of graniteware.

Words near granitewares in the dictionary

  1. Granite Stater
  2. granitelike
  3. granites
  4. Graniteville
  5. graniteware
  6. granitewares
  7. granitic
  8. granitical
  9. granitically
  10. graniticoline
  11. graniticolous

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