pottery
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English
Etymology
From Old French poterie, from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot, equivalent to pot + -ery. First attested in the 13th century.
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Noun
pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)
- Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
- The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
- (countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
- I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
- The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
- Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.
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fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
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workshop where pottery is made
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practise or craft of making pottery
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