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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pottery, 1.

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Examples

  • So simple and low was the building, and so matched with the colors around it, that but for the smoke curling up from a pipe of red pottery-ware, a stranger might almost have overlooked it.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Burn the clay, and we have, according to the fineness of the materials, porcelain, pottery-ware, or bricks.

    Religion and Chemistry 1880

  • Until a comparatively recent period, the whole of the pottery-ware manufactured in Staffordshire was hawked about and disposed of in this way.

    The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

  • So simple and low was the building, and so matched with the colors around it, that but for the smoke curling up from a pipe of red pottery-ware, a stranger might almost have overlooked it.

    Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

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