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ˈɜr θənˌwɛərearth·en·ware

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. earthenwarenoun

    ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat

Wiktionary

  1. earthenwarenoun

    An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.

Wikipedia

  1. Earthenware

    Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below 1,200 °C (2,190 °F). Basic earthenware, often called terracotta, absorbs liquids such as water. However, earthenware can be made impervious to liquids by coating it with a ceramic glaze, which the great majority of modern domestic earthenware has. The main other important types of pottery are porcelain, bone china, and stoneware, all fired at high enough temperatures to vitrify. Earthenware comprises "most building bricks, nearly all European pottery up to the seventeenth century, most of the wares of Egypt, Persia and the near East; Greek, Roman and Mediterranean, and some of the Chinese; and the fine earthenware which forms the greater part of our tableware today" ("today" being 1962). Pit fired earthenware dates back to as early as 29,000–25,000 BC, and for millennia, only earthenware pottery was made, with stoneware gradually developing some 5,000 years ago, but then apparently disappearing for a few thousand years. Outside East Asia, porcelain was manufactured only from the 18th century AD, and then initially as an expensive luxury. After it is fired, earthenware is opaque and non-vitreous, soft and capable of being scratched with a knife. The Combined Nomenclature of the European Union describes it as being made of selected clays sometimes mixed with feldspars and varying amounts of other minerals, and white or light-colored (i.e., slightly greyish, cream, or ivory).

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  1. earthenware

    Earthenware is a type of pottery made from clay that is fired at a relatively low temperature. This makes it porous and less durable compared to stoneware or porcelain. It is often glazed to make it waterproof and is commonly used for decorative objects, dishes, bowls, and pots.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Earthenwarenoun

    vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain

Wikidata

  1. Earthenware

    Earthenware is a common ceramic material, which is used extensively for pottery tableware and decorative objects.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Earthenware in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Earthenware in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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    It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.

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