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pottery noun & adjective. L15.
[Old & mod. French poterie, from potier a potter (see POTTER noun1); later from POT noun1: see -ERY.]
A. noun.
A potter's workshop; a factory where earthenware or baked clay vessels etc. are made. L15.
the Potteries a district in North Staffordshire, the seat of the English pottery industry.
P. Gzowski Because I was firing my kiln this morning, I wasn't able to leave the pottery.
The potter's art; the making of earthenware or baked clay vessels etc. E18.
South African Panorama Raku pottery is another of her favourite pastimes.
Vessels or other objects made of earthenware or baked clay. L18.
NEWCASTLE pottery.
V. Brome Scattered bones and broken pottery from a very primitive culture. E. Leonard He..wondered if this piece of pottery was more authentic than the ten-buck..stuff.
Comb.: pottery-bark tree = pottery tree below; pottery clay = potter's clay s.v. POTTER noun1; pottery mould a brick of soft stone mixed with pipeclay, used for whitening hearths etc.; pottery tree a S. American tree, Licania octandra (family Chrysobalanaceae), the bark of which is mixed with clay to make it heat-resistant.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Made of baked clay, earthenware. M19.
M. Mahy Laura put the pottery mugs down on the table.