stoneware

English

Stoneware pottery with a celadon glaze, from the Ming Dynasty. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Etymology

From stone +‎ -ware.

Noun

stoneware (countable and uncountable, plural stonewares)

1. A type of pottery that is fired at a high temperature and is dense, opaque and nonporous.

Translations

type of pottery

• Catalan: gres m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石器 (zh) (shíqì)

• Danish: stentøj n
• Finnish: kivitavara (fi)
• French: grès (fr) m
• German: Steinzeug (de) n, Feinsteinzeug (de) n
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• Irish: cruachré f
• Italian: gres m
• Japanese: 炻器 (せっき, sekki), せっ器 (せっき, sekki)
• Portuguese: grés (pt) m
• Russian: гли́няная посу́да f (glínjanaja posúda), керами́ческие изде́лия n pl (keramíčeskije izdélija), кера́мика (ru) f (kerámika)
• Welsh: crochenwaith caled m

References

• “stoneware” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.