Meanings
- uncountableArticles made from bone.
By 2000 bc the Yi people had a kingdom here, making bronze vessels and filling them with wine, and by Confucius’s time Qufu’s craftspeople made glass decorations, boneware chopsticks, and incense.
1990, Fredric M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Arne J. de Keijzer, The China Guidebook, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row; Teaneck, N.J.: Eurasia Press, →ISBN, page 5622 more examples
“The Nazis took the paintings out of the home. They made use of the objects, they auctioned them off, whatever. What did the Nazis do with chinaware?” Moser asked in exasperation, evoking an image of Gestapo thugs holding up fine boneware like cavemen trying to make sense of a microwave oven.
2012, Anne-Marie O’Connor, The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 242Three frayed leashes, each metal clasp a question mark, dresser-and-a-closet’s-worth of clothes, weathered high-top shoes, a kitchen clock, transistor radio, a sparse but matching set of boneware dishes, pasteboard box of hair barrettes.
2015, Richard St. John, Each Perfected Name, Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 86
Origin
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