Potteryware

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    pottery countable, uncountable

    "Although clay analysis shows that they made most of their potterywares on-site in Canaan, rather than importing them from elsewhere, the vessels' shapes and geometric and bird-motif decorations display characteristic Aegean styling."

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"Although clay analysis shows that they made most of their potterywares on-site in Canaan, rather than importing them from elsewhere, the vessels' shapes and geometric and bird-motif decorations display characteristic Aegean styling."

Etymology

From pottery + ware, attested from 1785.

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