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mealware

mealware noun: utensils for holding, cooking, or serving a meal.

Noun

mealware (uncountable)

  1. Utensils for holding, cooking, or serving a meal.
    • The waitress started to remove the mealware.1970, John Jakes, Six-Gun Planet, Warner Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 25
    • The slender man hoisted the mealware from the coals and set it to the ground. “Food,” said Karlsson.1982, Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 242

Examples of mealware in a sentence

  • When lay people go to a place of [practicing] the truth, they should be equipped with the three Dharma-robes, a willow twig, rinsing water, mealware, and a sitting cloth; […]1994, Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Chodo Cross, transl., Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, book 1, Dogen Sangha, published 2006, →ISBN, page 117:
  • After Shorty set the items on the ground, he reached for the metal sliding door to retrieve the previous day’s mealware.2001, Christopher Metzger, Silent Rebellion, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 189:

Origin of mealware

From meal + -ware.

Questions about mealware

What does mealware mean?
Mealware means utensils for holding, cooking, or serving a meal.
How do you use mealware in a sentence?
When lay people go to a place of [practicing] the truth, they should be equipped with the three Dharma-robes, a willow twig, rinsing water, mealware, and a sitting cloth; […]
What part of speech is mealware?
Mealware is a noun.

Words near mealware in the dictionary

  1. Mealsgate
  2. mealtide
  3. mealtides
  4. mealtime
  5. mealtimes
  6. mealware
  7. mealworm
  8. mealworm beetle
  9. mealworm beetles
  10. mealworms
  11. mealy

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