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luncheonware

luncheonware noun: the dishes used for serving a luncheon.

Noun

luncheonware (uncountable)

  1. The dishes used for serving a luncheon.
    • 31 pieces of perfect luncheonware—beautifully decorated and perfectly proportioned.1928 November 26, The Evening Gazette, volume XLVII, number 282, Xenia, Ohio, page sixteen
    • And within the houses of the townsfolk were slow-moving flies and a sound of the scraping of soiled luncheonware.1961, Frank Hercules, Where the Hummingbird Flies, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, →LCCN, page 23

Examples of luncheonware in a sentence

  • Red Wing’s pottery has been fortunate in securing a good market for its wares in the quality field - largely because it has been a leader in luncheonware design.1968, Richard S. Gillmer, Death of a Business: The Red Wing Potteries, Minneapolis, Minn.: Ross & Haines, Inc., →LCCN, page 24:
  • She had set the table with watermelon place mats and her favorite green pottery luncheonware.2005, Susan Wittig Albert, Dead Man’s Bones, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 229:
  • My mawl P.B. flew into the doorway and dropped his metal luncheonware container on the dirt floor before embracing me in a tight hug.2008, Jane Greenhill, I Was a Teenage Alien, The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, page 43:

Origin of luncheonware

From luncheon + -ware.

Questions about luncheonware

What does luncheonware mean?
Luncheonware means the dishes used for serving a luncheon.
How do you use luncheonware in a sentence?
Red Wing’s pottery has been fortunate in securing a good market for its wares in the quality field - largely because it has been a leader in luncheonware design.
What part of speech is luncheonware?
Luncheonware is a noun.

Words near luncheonware in the dictionary

  1. luncheonette
  2. luncheonettes
  3. luncheoning
  4. luncheonless
  5. luncheons
  6. luncheonware
  7. luncher
  8. lunchers
  9. lunches
  10. lunches in
  11. lunches out

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