Meanings
alternative aluminiumware
- 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 43 more examples
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 178Centerpieces 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 54I 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
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