dessertware

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noun

The dishes used for serving dessert.

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Meanings

noundessertware (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe dishes used for serving dessert.

    Use beverage glasses as elegant dessertware

    1985 May 29, Granite City Journal, volume 9, number 31, page 5C
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    They exclaimed over teapots and dessertware in the forms of stylized cauliflowers, pineapples, cabbages, and Chinese melon-shaped winepots.

    1950, Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, New York, N.Y.: Gramercy Publishing Company, page 18

    No, pottery in large quantities: soup tureens, twelve dozen plates, platters of various shapes and sizes, oil cruets, butter dishes, plenty of dessertware, glasses, and buckets, as well as enough implements to serve tea to many people.

    2000, Claude-Anne Lopez, My Life with Benjamin Franklin, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 141

Origin

From dessert + -ware.

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