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How to use earthenware in a sentence

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Earthenware means an opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds. Example: “Renaissance tin-glazed Italian maiolica earthenware was made in Urbino and other centres.”

More sentences with earthenware

  • Renaissance tin-glazed Italian maiolica earthenware was made in Urbino and other centres.From the entry tin-glazed
  • Vinayakram, an expert on the ghatam, an earthenware pot played with thrummed fingers or open palms.2009 May 1, Nate Chinen, “Bringing Along Friends Who Can Add to the Beat”, in New York Times. From the entry ghatam
  • This example is a primitive burnished earthenware with chattered vertical comb lines.[1973 May, Mino Yutaka, “Liao Dynasty Ceramics at China House Gallery New York”, in The Connoisseur, volume 183, number 735, The National…. From the entry Chifeng
  • The red Raku is made from a reddish earthenware clay and is glazed with a lead glaze.1968, Daniel Rhodes, Kilns: Design, Construction and Operation, page 180. From the entry raku
  • Cool in refrigerator in a tightly covered glass, earthenware, or enameledware container.1951 August, “Refreshing, make-early meals”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 29, number 12, page 81. From the entry enameledware
  • Majolica is the term used to describe pottery made of an earthenware body coated with semi-translucent coloured lead glazes.2018, Claire Blakey, “Minton Majolica: A Visual Feast of Victorian Opulence”, in The Minton Archive, archived from the original on 05 May…. From the entry majolica
  • Ezra Cornell's glass drawerknobs proved to be a prototype as glass insulators became popular in America, while Europeans favored earthenware.1992, Paul Israel, From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory, page 59. From the entry drawerknob
  • A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery.1921 May 11, “Edison Questions Stir Up a Storm”, in New York Times. From the entry china
  • The use of a glazed earthenware nesting-dish, or “nappy, ” 9 inches in diameter across the top, is strongly advised.1909, Milton Osman Jones, Guide to Successful Squab Raising, page 11. From the entry nappy
  • M‘Nab also stocks all class of household ironmongery, crockery, glassware, and earthenware, together with broomware and all useful household requisites.1905 December 30, The Freeman’s Journal, volume LVI, number 3493, Sydney, N.S.W., page 3, column 2. From the entry broomware
  • One of Morocco's most famous traditional specialities tajine (also spelled tahine or tadjine) gets its name from glazed earthenware pot used to prepare it, the tajine slaoui.2004, Julia Weiss, transl., edited by Paolo Piazzesi, Moroccan Cooking, English edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry tajine
  • In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices.1970, Wolfram Eberhard, Studies in Chinese Folklore and Related Essays, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22. From the entry Li-shui
  • The various branches he developed were earthenware and ordinary soft porcelain, hard porcelain, parian, coloured and enamelled tiles, mosaics, Della Robbia ware, majolica, and Palissy ware.1904, Arthur Hayden, Chats on English China, New York, page 184. From the entry majolica

Meaning of earthenware

  1. noun An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.

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Questions about earthenware in a sentence

How do you use earthenware in a sentence?
Earthenware is used as a noun. For example: “Renaissance tin-glazed Italian maiolica earthenware was made in Urbino and other centres.”
What is a short sentence with earthenware?
“Cool in refrigerator in a tightly covered glass, earthenware, or enameledware container.”
What does earthenware mean?
Earthenware means an opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.

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