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lusterware en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English lust Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English luster Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English lusterware From luster + -ware.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
   • The golden gates of Meshed have a rosy sheen, like lustre ware […] 1961, Freya Stark, chapter 9, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 172:
   • Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who worked not at all but, reluctantly remaining in Zenith, collected luster-ware and first editions as though they were back in Paris. 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
   • In Nantucket, they sold most of their stock: […] English lusterware, an oak wall cupboard and a decorated leather sea trunk made in China. 2007 August 10, Wendy Moonan, “Newport Antiques (and Nantucket’s) in Summer Fair”, in New York Times:

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