Meanings
- uncountableArticles made from straw.
There were the following items in the year under discussion: Cotton, dry goods, flax, hemp, linen, platt, strawware, and manufactured woolens.
1951 July, Francis Carroll Huntley, “The Seaborne Trade of Virginia in Mid-Eighteenth Century: Port Hampton”, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 59, number 3, Richmond, Va.: Virginia Historical Society, page 3072 more examples
Other items of interest were woodenware, bambooware, rattan, and strawware of a value of Y.$2,194,378 (Y.$1,683,579), and mats for packing purposes, Y.$1,189,101 (Y.$1,318,611).
1936 September 19, C. S. Bissett, “Trade of Manchuria in 1935”, in Commercial Intelligence Journal, volume LV, number 1703, Ottawa, Ont., page 575Tinware, strawware, cloth, jewelry, sombreros, pinatas, and almost anything else with a Mexican air can be had in the market if you are a skillful haggler of prices.
1967 March, L. H. Robinson, “Travel: Yanqui, Come to Juarez”, in The Student, volume 80, number 3, Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest College, page 5
Origin
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