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EARTHENWARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("earthenware" is a kind of...):
ceramic ware (utensils made from ceramic material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earthenware"):
delft (a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration)
faience (glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors)
maiolica; majolica (highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide)
terra cotta (a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware)
Samian ware; terra sigillata (earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos)
