Meanings
- 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 sixteen4 more examples
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 23Red 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 24She 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 229My 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
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