Meanings
- uncountableJugs collectively.
In the mountain economy, corn brought a higher price in liquid form than it did in the husk. And the handiest container was the little brown jug. Potters flourished during Prohibition crafting distinctive jugware for the trade.
1996, Jay Fields, Brad Campbell, “Circle the Mountain”, in The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina, Asheville, N.C.: HandMade in America, Inc., →ISBN, page 422 more examples
He had politely condemned “the stolid ugliness of the horse-hair sofa” and “stoves decorated with funeral urns in cast iron”; he had begged Americans to adopt a greater and more seemly variety of jugware and to place some importance on color in their houses; […]
1966, Thurman Wilkins, “A British Summer”, in Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →LCCN, page 158I can remember when aluminum first appeared in the consumer world and elsewhere, after a quarter century as an expensive exotic. Quite sensational and very handsome. It revolutionized the kitchen, of course—I can still see my mother’s old iron skillets and greasy, rusty frying pans, the heavy crockery and jugware, the chipped enamel, the nickel-plated counter tools with the wooden handles, red or green, that quickly split and came off.
1986 May, Edward Tatnall Canby, “Audio Etc: Matters of Substance”, in Audio, volume 70, number 5, page 26, columns 1–2
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