amberware

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noun

Articles made from amber.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounamberware (uncountable)
  1. uncountableArticles made from amber.

    Owing to a press of orders the Clyde Glass Works will commence work on amberware on Thursday next.

    1897 March 30, Democrat and Chronicle, volume 65, number 89, Rochester, N.Y., page 4, column 2
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    And in addition to the ivory inlaid in gold figurings— / —are some of opalescent pearl, elegantly patterned in inlaid designs of silver and blue enamel! And the fashionable amberware, inlaid with gold.

    1913 February 17, The Los Angeles Times, part II, page 7

    High-class cut amberware requires special processing. […] The export of amberware is in the hands of ”VARIMEX”, Polish Company for Foreign Trade, Wilcza 50/52, Warsaw.

    1951 September–October, “Do You Know-About Amber?”, in Polish Foreign Trade, number 7, Warsaw: The Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, page 30

    Numerous examples of Polish amberware can be seen in museums in Malbork, Gdansk, Slupsk and elsewhere.

    1985, Olgierd Budrewicz, Introduction to Poland, Miami, Fla.: The American Institute of Polish Culture, →LCCN, page 100

    Notice the amberware; Aquileia was famous for its amber, a tradition later exported to Venice to become the basis of its famous glass industry.

    1985, Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., edited by Teresa Turvey and Denise Branch Wydra, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Italy, 1985, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 216

    It was once Vilnius’s commercial centre but today the street is popular with visitors hunting for amberware and other local products.

    2009, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, DK, →ISBN, page 221

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