Meanings
- uncountableArticles made from ruby.
A Baptist deacon whom we met in church the next day, a factory foreman, salvaged for us virtually a full service of magnificent rubyware which we still treasure.
1986, Carl F[erdinand] H[oward] Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, Waco, Tex.: Word Books, →ISBN, page 973 more examples
“The best thing on such a day is a hot drink,” his mother stood close to him as she poured the black chocolate over the spoon that rested against the rim and bottom of the rubyware cup.
1953, Irving Shulman, The Square Trap, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 349[…] service for 6 Noritake china, several sterling silver pieces, rubyware, mantel clock, knick-knacks, brassware stemware, collection of Avon bottles, lot of TV and radio testing equipment, plus several truck loads of 1” and 2” lumber, and many other items.
1988 October 6, The Republican, volume 111, number 32, Oakland, Md., page C-16It could as easily have been a selection of copper, wood, or enamelware, or a pleasing arrangement of milk glass, rubyware, all-white porcelain, pickle containers, compotes, or pedestal banana boats in cut crystal.
2003, Denise McGann, Chic Country Style, New York, N.Y.: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 119
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