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rubyware

rubyware noun: articles made from ruby.

Noun

rubyware (uncountable)

  1. Articles made from ruby.
    • “The best thing on such a day is a hot drink,” his mother stood close to him as she poured the black chocolate over the spoon that rested against the rim and bottom of the rubyware cup.1953, Irving Shulman, The Square Trap, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 349
    • A Baptist deacon whom we met in church the next day, a factory foreman, salvaged for us virtually a full service of magnificent rubyware which we still treasure.1986, Carl F[erdinand] H[oward] Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, Waco, Tex.: Word Books, →ISBN, page 97

Origin of rubyware

From ruby + -ware.

Questions about rubyware

What does rubyware mean?
Rubyware means articles made from ruby.
What part of speech is rubyware?
Rubyware is a noun.

Words near rubyware in the dictionary

  1. rubyspots
  2. rubytail
  3. rubytails
  4. rubythroat
  5. rubythroats
  6. rubyware
  7. rubywood
  8. ruc
  9. rucaparib
  10. Rucci
  11. Ruccis

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