lusterware

lusterware

English

A lusterware cup

Etymology

luster +‎ -ware

Noun

lusterware (countable and uncountable, plural lusterwares)

1. A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter XXXIV,

     Besides these hearty fellows, these salesmen of prosperity, there were the aristocrats, that is, the men who were richer or had been rich for more generations: the presidents of banks and of factories, the land-owners, the corporation lawyers, the fashionable doctors, and the few young-old men who worked not at all but, reluctantly remaining in Zenith, collected luster-ware and first editions as though they were back in Paris.

   • 1961, Freya Stark, Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Chapter 9, p. 172,

     The golden gates of Meshed have a rosy sheen, like lustre ware […]

   • 2007 August 10, Wendy Moonan, “Newport Antiques (and Nantucket’s) in Summer Fair”, in New York Times‎:

     In Nantucket, they sold most of their stock: […] English lusterware, an oak wall cupboard and a decorated leather sea trunk made in China.

Alternative forms

• lustreware (British spelling)

Anagrams

• lustreware