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strawware

strawware noun: articles made from straw.

Noun

strawware (uncountable)

  1. Articles made from straw.
    • Other items of interest were woodenware, bambooware, rattan, and strawware of a value of Y.$2,194,378 (Y.$1,683,579), and mats for packing purposes, Y.$1,189,101 (Y.$1,318,611).1936 September 19, C. S. Bissett, “Trade of Manchuria in 1935”, in Commercial Intelligence Journal, volume LV, number 1703, Ottawa, Ont., page 575
    • There were the following items in the year under discussion: Cotton, dry goods, flax, hemp, linen, platt, strawware, and manufactured woolens.1951 July, Francis Carroll Huntley, “The Seaborne Trade of Virginia in Mid-Eighteenth Century: Port Hampton”, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 59, number 3, Richmond, Va....

Origin of strawware

From straw + -ware.

Questions about strawware

What does strawware mean?
Strawware means articles made from straw.
What part of speech is strawware?
Strawware is a noun.

Words near strawware in the dictionary

  1. strawsful
  2. strawshed
  3. strawsheds
  4. strawstack
  5. strawstacks
  6. strawware
  7. strawweight
  8. strawweights
  9. strawwoman
  10. strawwomen
  11. strawworm

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