Graniteware
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Graniteware is a noun meaning Ironware that has been coated with a layer of vitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resembling granite.
Meaning
Ironware that has been coated with a layer of vitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resembling granite.
More Meanings
- Pottery with the same type of enamel coating.
Example Sentences
The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the sme material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.
Word Forms
- granitewares
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ironstone, enameledware, enamelware, granitoid, agateware, caneware.
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