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aluminumware en · NOUN

Etymology

From aluminum + -ware.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Articles made from aluminum.
   • Gates Hardware Co. / Builders’ Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, Graniteware, Aluminumware, Wood Fiber Goods. 1895 March 24, Springfield Daily Republican, volume III, Springfield, Mo., page 4:
   • Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic. 1998, Margaret Winchell, Armed with Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia, Hermitage Publishers, →ISBN, page 54:
   • I entered the Great Hall. It wasn’t so great, just a big, noisy room filled with the clinking of aluminumware on cheap food service dishes. 2010, Larry Enright, Four Years from Home, →ISBN, page 212:
   • While enameled ware maintained popularity for many years (well into the 1930s), aluminumware and glass oven-to-table Pyrex cookware were also being used before 1920. 1995, Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise, Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:

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