hollowware

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A hollow container like a teapot or bowl used to hold and serve food and drink

noun
/ˈhɑloʊˌwɛr/

Specialized

: vajilla hueca

For the holiday dinner, we used our beautiful silver hollowware to serve the soup and salad.
set of hollowware

Examples

She was making trips to the dish cabinet in the dining room and putting dishes and hollowware away.

Fiction book (1991)
"Sure, that sounds great." Jackie nearly dropped her mother's good set of hollowware as she moved to the table, but she did finally manage to pour two lemonades.

Fiction book (1996)
The elegant teapot was part of a fine set of hollowware displayed in the dining room.
She carefully arranged the fruits in a large glass hollowware bowl on the table.

Synonyms

holloware

vshollowware

Specialized

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Dishes like bowls or teapots for serving food and drink

has identical meaning but appears under a different spelling form

Surface Forms

hollowware singular

hollowwares plural

Morphology

hollowware = hollow + ware (transparent) = hollow + ware

The compound combines the clear meanings of 'hollow' + 'ware' to denote goods that are hollow (e.g., bowls, pots), which a learner who knows both parts can infer.

Etymology

The word hollowware comes from hollow ('empty inside') and ware ('things you use'), the same ware in tableware and silverware. So, hollowware is the bowls, pots and teapots that are hollow so they can hold food or drink.