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Definition of Pottery

1. Noun. Ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln.

2. Noun. The craft of making earthenware.

3. Noun. A workshop where clayware is made.

Definition of Pottery

1. n. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

Definition of Pottery

1. Noun. Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed ¹

2. Noun. A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made ¹

3. Noun. The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pottery

1. ware molded from clay and hardened by heat [n -TERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pottery

pottered pottered about pottered around potterer potterers potteress potteresses potteries pottering pottering about

pottering around potteringly potters potters about potters around pottery (current term) pottier potties pottiest pottiness

pottinesses potting pottle pottles potto pottos potts pottsite potty potty-mouthed

Literary usage of Pottery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"According to popular tradition, it method for the decoration of pottery in various ... We know from various sources that lus t red pottery from the Balearic ..."

2. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1911)
"RELATIONS AS DETERMINED BY pottery In the report on Spruce-tree House, using pottery as a basis, the prehistoric culture of the Southwest, including the ..."

3. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"The frequent use in the Old Testament of the terms taken from this industry, and the numerous cases in which figures are drawn from articles of pottery, ..."

4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"pottery is made in almost every village, from the small vessels required in cooking ... Sind pottery. In Sind and the Southern Punjab the potter's craft has ..."

5. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"THE PUEBLO INDIAN pottery REMARKS OF MISS JOSEPHINE FOARD Mr. Smiley, Ladies and Gentlemen: Mohonk Lake is the mother of the Pueblo Indian pottery at ..."

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