queensware

English

Alternative forms
  • queen's ware, Queen's ware

Etymology

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

Noun

queensware (uncountable)

  1. A type of Wedgwood creamware. [from 18th c.]
    • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 67:
      The shelves are not only shining with pewter and queen's ware, but some articles in silver, more ponderous, it is true, than elegant.
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 60:
      [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.
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