luncheonware

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noun

The dishes used for serving a luncheon.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounluncheonware (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe dishes used for serving a luncheon.

    31 pieces of perfect luncheonware—beautifully decorated and perfectly proportioned.

    1928 November 26, The Evening Gazette, volume XLVII, number 282, Xenia, Ohio, page sixteen
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    And within the houses of the townsfolk were slow-moving flies and a sound of the scraping of soiled luncheonware.

    1961, Frank Hercules, Where the Hummingbird Flies, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, →LCCN, page 23

    Red Wing’s pottery has been fortunate in securing a good market for its wares in the quality field - largely because it has been a leader in luncheonware design.

    1968, Richard S. Gillmer, Death of a Business: The Red Wing Potteries, Minneapolis, Minn.: Ross & Haines, Inc., →LCCN, page 24

    She had set the table with watermelon place mats and her favorite green pottery luncheonware.

    2005, Susan Wittig Albert, Dead Man’s Bones, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 229

    My mawl P.B. flew into the doorway and dropped his metal luncheonware container on the dirt floor before embracing me in a tight hug.

    2008, Jane Greenhill, I Was a Teenage Alien, The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, page 43

Origin

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APA

luncheonware. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/luncheonware

MLA

“luncheonware.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/luncheonware. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “luncheonware,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/luncheonware.

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