Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The plates, serving bowls, platters, and other tableware used in serving a meal.
- noun A set of dishes.
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- noun The dishes used for serving
dinner .
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- noun the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal
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Examples
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The Cascada 49-Piece Dinnerware Set is an elegant 49-piece porcelain dinnerware set complete with everything you can possibly need on your gorgeous table.
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Don't forget your monocle and porcelain dinnerware!
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The Libbey dinnerware is not offered in sets of 12 from Bealls Florida, it is sold individually as open stock items.
Bealls Florida Says Amazon Confused Listings On 12 Piece Dinnerware Mini-Fiasco - The Consumerist 2009
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Don't forget your monocle and porcelain dinnerware!
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Part of the land was littered with hundreds of broken fragments of old china dinnerware from the 1800s, which I excitedly collected and kept.
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Part of the land was littered with hundreds of broken fragments of old china dinnerware from the 1800s, which I excitedly collected and kept.
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When I bought a fancy set of dinnerware from the Ken Edwards factory in Tocolo near Quadalajara, I was assured again that anything from a company which ships to the U.S. has to follow U.S. standards for ceramic glazes and all colors are perfectly safe.
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When I bought a fancy set of dinnerware from the Ken Edwards factory in Tocolo near Quadalajara, I was assured again that anything from a company which ships to the U.S. has to follow U.S. standards for ceramic glazes and all colors are perfectly safe.
Hot dishes 2004
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The table was set with his own collection of dinnerware, which is carried at Gump's, flanked by Ikea flatware.
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With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s."
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