lusterware

English

A lusterware cup

Alternative forms

• lustreware (British)

Etymology

From luster +‎ -ware.

Noun

lusterware (countable and uncountable, plural lusterwares)

1. A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

     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, chapter 9, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 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^[1]:

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

Anagrams

• lustreware