Word of the Day:
earthenware
What It Means
An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.
earthenware bowl
Did You Know?
From earthen + -ware, first recorded appearance in 1673. Compare Dutch aardewerk (“earthenware”).
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: earthenware (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
Cite this entry: “earthenware.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/earthenware. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
