strawware

English

Etymology

From straw +‎ -ware.

Noun

strawware (uncountable)

1. Articles made from straw.
   • 1936 September 19, C. S. Bissett, “Trade of Manchuria in 1935”, in Commercial Intelligence Journal, volume LV, number 1703, Ottawa, Ont., page 575:

     Other items of interest were woodenware, bambooware, rattan, and strawware of a value of Y.$2,194,378 (Y.$1,683,579), and mats for packing purposes, Y.$1,189,101 (Y.$1,318,611).

   • 1951 July, Francis Carroll Huntley, “The Seaborne Trade of Virginia in Mid-Eighteenth Century: Port Hampton”, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 59, number 3, Richmond, Va.: Virginia Historical Society, page 307:

     There were the following items in the year under discussion: Cotton, dry goods, flax, hemp, linen, platt, strawware, and manufactured woolens.

   • 1967 March, L. H. Robinson, “Travel: Yanqui, Come to Juarez”, in The Student, volume 80, number 3, Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest College, page 5:

     Tinware, strawware, cloth, jewelry, sombreros, pinatas, and almost anything else with a Mexican air can be had in the market if you are a skillful haggler of prices.