queensware
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From queen's + ware, after Queen Charlotte, who gave royal patronage to Wedgwood based on this product.
Noun[edit]
queensware (uncountable)
- 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.