aluminumware

English

Alternative forms

• aluminiumware

Etymology

From aluminum +‎ -ware.

Noun

aluminumware (uncountable)

1. Articles made from aluminum.
   • 1895 March 24, Springfield Daily Republican, volume III, Springfield, Mo., page 4:

     Gates Hardware Co. / Builders’ Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, Graniteware, Aluminumware, Wood Fiber Goods.

   • 1995, Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise, Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:

     While enameled ware maintained popularity for many years (well into the 1930s), aluminumware and glass oven-to-table Pyrex cookware were also being used before 1920.

   • 1998, Margaret Winchell, Armed with Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia, Hermitage Publishers, →ISBN, page 54:

     Centerpieces consisted of a bouquet of paper strips stuck into a glass, which served as napkins; the aluminumware was lighter than plastic.

   • 2010, Larry Enright, Four Years from Home, →ISBN, page 212:

     I entered the Great Hall. It wasn’t so great, just a big, noisy room filled with the clinking of aluminumware on cheap food service dishes.