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lusterware

lusterware noun: a type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze.

lusterware: a type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
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Noun

lusterware (countable and uncountable, plural lusterwares)

  1. A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
    • Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who...1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
    • The golden gates of Meshed have a rosy sheen, like lustre ware […]1961, Freya Stark, chapter 9, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 172

Forms of lusterware

plurallusterwares
alternative UKlustreware

Origin of lusterware

From luster + -ware.

Questions about lusterware

What does lusterware mean?
Lusterware means a type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze.
What part of speech is lusterware?
Lusterware is a noun.
What is the plural of lusterware?
The plural of lusterware is lusterwares.

Words near lusterware in the dictionary

  1. lusterless
  2. lusterlessly
  3. lusterlessness
  4. lusterous
  5. lusters
  6. lusterware
  7. lusterwares
  8. lustest
  9. lusteth
  10. lustful
  11. lustfull

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