What is "potteries"

Usage examples of "potteries".

Fliss had told me that many of the potters originally opposed the center because they feared that a gift shop would end the custom of buyers coming out to the potteries, which would, in turn, cut down on their impulse buys when surrounded by so many goodies.

Hell, even as late as 1970, you could probably count all the active potteries on two hands.

I could munch my way down to Seagrove, pick up a map of area potteries, and look for a serving platter that would go with the casual lifestyle I’d adopted since building my own house out by one of the farm ponds.

Instead, the center displays representative pieces from most of the surrounding potteries, each keyed to a simplified map of the area.

Yet certain of the older potteries kept being mentioned, Nordan and Hitchcock among them, and his patience was rewarded near the end when the camera lingered on old Amos’s face, then moved on to “those who will carry on the Nordan tradition in Sea-grove: James Lucas Nordan and his wife Sandra Kay Hitchcock Nordan, and his brother Donny Nordan.

I could check out a few more potteries and maybe find the platters I needed.

Pike had no idea that she had heard about the dangers of the potteries from the other side of the argument.

Granted, Reggie did seem to have some interest in working at the potteries, but still.

Your potteries are astonishing, and surely must be the envy of your peers, but I haven't the interest or the ability to run one, and I prefer the North Pasture as it is.

By lunchtime he had learned that his Uncle Bill and Aunt Fran were in Britain to visit the Staffordshire potteries and the china-clay district of Cornwall, where they had business of some complex Anglo-American kind.

From the enthusiastic potteries in North Carolina, Amos had enlarged his col­lection of lawn statuary to twenty-one major items, and casual passers-by were usually on hand to admire the art collection.