vintage garageware

9.5

Household items from garages like oil cans and tools that people collect

noun
/ˈvɪn.tɪdʒ ˈɡær.ɑːʤ.wɛər/

: artículos de garaje vintage

His shelves were lined with vintage garageware, including old oil cans and metal toolboxes.

Examples

Collectors often search estate sales for rare pieces of vintage garageware.
She found some vintage garageware at the flea market.
I found some amazing vintage garageware at the flea market.
My father collects vintage garageware from the 1950s.
His shelves were lined with vintage garageware, including old oil cans and metal toolboxes.
Collectors often search estate sales for rare pieces of vintage garageware.
My father collects vintage garageware from the 1950s.

Synonyms

antique

vsvintage garageware

109 5.6

An object made long ago and valued for its age or beauty

focuses on older household items from storage spaces such as tools and signs

How Old

vintage garageware

9.5

used

1.0

Surface Forms

vintage garageware singular

vintage garagewares plural

Morphology

vintage + garageware

The meaning is directly compositional: 'vintage' (from an earlier period) modifies 'garageware', which can be parsed as 'ware' (goods/items) associated with a 'garage'. Even though 'garageware' is rare or not listed in some dictionaries, the compound structure and familiar constituents allow a B1 learner who knows 'vintage', 'garage' and 'ware' to infer the intended sense.

Etymology

Vintage garageware brings to mind a dusty garage full of old metal signs, oil cans and hand tools from another era, where vintage means 'old and valued' and garageware are the goods kept in a garage. So, the phrase means 'old or collectible household and garage items'.