Lusterware
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze countable, uncountable
"Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who worked not at all but, reluctantly remaining in Zenith, collected luster-ware and first editions as though they were back in Paris."
- 2 pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze wordnet
Example
More examples"Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who worked not at all but, reluctantly remaining in Zenith, collected luster-ware and first editions as though they were back in Paris."
Etymology
From luster + -ware.
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