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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tableware
noun
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▪ Cornelia Park in the Stanford Shopping Center is a light-hearted store overflowing with eye-popping tableware, wildly painted dining furniture and glassware.
▪ In the past it was much used for teapots, milk jugs and other forms of tableware.
▪ In the past this metal was often used for tableware and as a base for electroplating.
▪ Next came forks and tableware in general that reflected good quality silver and occasionally gold crafted in artistic designs.
▪ On the domestic scene glass has for centuries been worked into fine tableware, chandeliers and ornaments.
▪ Provençal green tableware, salt & pepper mills, utensils and condiments, from a selection at Divertimenti.
▪ Spode and Lenox are the best-known of the high-end tableware.
▪ The cups and tableware were greasy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tableware

Tableware \Ta"ble*ware`\, n. Ware, or articles collectively, for use during meals, including, for example, dishes, plates, bowls, knives, forks, and spoons.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tableware

also table-ware, 1799, from table (n.) + ware.

Wiktionary
tableware

n. The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.

WordNet
tableware

n. articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)

Wikipedia
Tableware

"Dinnerware" is another term used to refer to tableware and "crockery" refers to ceramic dishes in everyday use as differentiated them from the fine porcelain and bone china produced by makers such as Sèvres in France, Meissen in Germany, Royal Copenhagen in Denmark, Royal Doulton in England, or Belleek Pottery in Ireland. Sets of dishes are referred to as a table service, dinner service or service set. Table settings or place settings are the dishes, cutlery and glassware used for formal and informal dining. In Ireland such items are normally referred to as delph, the word being an English language phonetic spelling of the word delft, the town from which so much delftware came. Silver service or butler service are methods for a butler or waiter to serve a meal.

Setting the table refers to arranging the tableware, including individual place settings for each diner at the table as well as decorating the table itself in a manner suitable for the occasion. Tableware and table decoration is typically more elaborate for special occasions. Unusual dining locations demand tableware be adapted.

Usage examples of "tableware".

Sandra Kay made them build new kilns to keep their cardinal ware separate from the tableware because of the fumes.

I asked about the set of bright red tableware with the emphatic NOT FOR SALE sign.

A hush fell as the husband of one of the elderly aunts asked the blessing, then the reverent silence was replaced by the clink of tableware against serving dishes.

Above was a shelf full of gray-and-purple Nordan tableware and drinking vessels.

All had been stamped after it became illegal to use this lead glaze on tableware meant for serving food.

This tableware had been carried from the Winter Palace of the Russian Czar, saved by trusted servants.

Valued as gold and silver alone - eliminating the workmanship - the tableware was worth many thousands of dollars.

The man who was trailing Silk Elverton was Foulkrod Kendall, the millionaire tableware manufacturer!

Hoyt leaped from his seat onto the table, scattering food and tableware as he went, and jumped down between Ambassador Wellington-Humphreys and Degs Momyer.

Against the left wall of the rectangular room were arranged the elements of a communal kitchen: a six-burner stove, two food slots, three large refrigerators, shelves stocked with goods in boxes and cans and tableware, an ultrasound dishwasher, and assorted gadgets at whose purpose Kirk could only guess.

At the farther end of the cook room I saw George pour hot water into his dishpan, light his pipe, and put the tableware through its required lavation.

Red-checked cloths, cheap and sturdy tableware, sawdust on the floor, just two farseers and their audio kept well down unless a major game or something was going on.

I plan to use a whole set of very long-handled tableware, dealing with that man.

It looked like the municipal tableware they used for mayoral banquets.

Their pottery man came up with five colors of glazes made from local materials, and we went into production making tableware, at first for ourselves, but then for sale as well.