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queensware en · NOUN

Etymology

From queen's + ware, after Queen Charlotte, who gave royal patronage to Wedgwood based on this product.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A type of Wedgwood creamware.
   • [T]he plates of Queen's ware had not only been ill-used by being put upon the hob, by which they had lost some of their gadrooned-edges, but were of an unequal size, and the dishes were flat and therefore held little gravy. 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 60:
   • The shelves are not only shining with pewter and queen's ware, but some articles in silver, more ponderous, it is true, than elegant. 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 67:

Forms

wikipedia: Queen Charlotte