ginger jar

noun

1. a Chinese ceramic jar having a wide mouth, a globular body, and a dome-shaped cover.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ginger jar¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

When it recurs in the 1893-1894 “Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants,” its rough bottom half is hidden by a decorously placed melon, which feels like a private joke of some sort, an inner-circle gibe that might reduce a family to giggles, while remaining indecipherable to everyone else.

From Washington Post

Gibson, whose line of boldly patterned ginger jar lamps and tole trays tends toward the traditional, still likes a little boho style in her country picnics.

From Washington Post

My father unwrapped the package and took out a very large ginger jar.

From Literature

Then how could a yellow ginger jar turn everything inside me upside down?

From Literature

Some ideas: a piece of coral, a glass orb, or a small ginger jar.

From Southern Living