redware

¹

[ red-wair ]

noun

, Ceramics.

1. an early American earthenware made from red clay.

redware

²

[ red-wair ]

noun

1. a large brown seaweed, Laminaria digitata, common off northern Atlantic coasts.

redware

/ ˈrɛdˌwɛə /

noun

1. another name for kelp

Word History and Origins

Origin of redware¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; red ¹ + ware ¹

Origin of redware²

First recorded in 1700–10; red ¹ + dialectal ware ( Middle English; Old English wār “seaweed”; wire )

Example Sentences

It makes for an unusual memento mori — though not, perhaps, as strange as a 19th-century yellow-glazed redware flask in the shape of an English outhouse.

From New York Times

“She has descended to common redware.”

From Literature

The Pennsylvania Germans produced the handsome ceramics known as redware and vibrantly painted furniture.

From New York Times

These thieves target archaeological sites and may conspire with shadowy middlemen, who employ consultants to appraise the value of, say, a burnished redware pot from the late Roman period or a 7th-century Umayyad painted jar.

From Washington Post

Steve: The rock duo Best Coast, the redware pottery of Lauren Mundy, and the late Peter Kaplan, celebrated editor of The New York Observer.

From Slate