Dessertware

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The dishes used for serving dessert. uncountable

    "They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots."

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"They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots."

Etymology

From dessert + -ware.

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