aluminumware

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noun

Articles made from aluminum.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounaluminumware (uncountable)

alternative aluminiumware

  1. uncountableArticles made from aluminum.

    Gates Hardware Co. / Builders’ Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, Graniteware, Aluminumware, Wood Fiber Goods.

    1895 March 24, Springfield Daily Republican, volume III, Springfield, Mo., page 4
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    While enameled ware maintained popularity for many years (well into the 1930s), aluminumware and glass oven-to-table Pyrex cookware were also being used before 1920.

    1995, Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise, Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 178

    Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic.

    1998, Margaret Winchell, Armed with Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia, Hermitage Publishers, →ISBN, page 54

    I entered the Great Hall. It wasn’t so great, just a big, noisy room filled with the clinking of aluminumware on cheap food service dishes.

    2010, Larry Enright, Four Years from Home, →ISBN, page 212

Origin

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