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/tˈeɪbəlwˌɛr/ Listen

Tableware

noun

Articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware).

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"Tableware" Quotes from Famous Books

... taking us to his own house, we soon had an excellent dinner. He seemed to be well-to-do, and had two houses built of slabs lashed vertically together. Nets full of jicaras, great stacks of corn neatly laid out, good tableware in quantity, and a kerosene-lamp, all were evidences of his wealth. We ate at a good table, in the house, where the corn was stored. The most astonishing thing, however, in the house was an old-fashioned piano, long beyond use. How it was ever ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... in the butler's pantry, but it is wholly superfluous. I am told that this adjunct is useful in washing such dishes and glassware as are too precious to be sent to the kitchen. All this sounds very fine, but the practice is to whew the tableware of all kinds into the kitchen, whether there be a sink in the butler's pantry or not. My grandmother (and my mother, too) never suffered a servant to wash the fine porcelain or the cut glass; that responsible task was always reserved for the housewife herself, and the result was that no porcelain ...

— The House - An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice • Eugene Field

Words linked to "Tableware" : dinnerware, ware, glasswork, glassware, cutlery, tea set, chopstick, crockery, table service, silverware, flatware, gold plate, eating utensil, table, dishware, tea service, service, silver plate