pottery

From Old French poterie [13c.], from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒtəɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːtɚɹi/

pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)

1. Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed

   The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

2. (countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made

   I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.

3. The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay

   Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.

• ceramic
• ceramics
• earthenware

• porcelain, china

• potter
• potter's clay
• potter's field
• potter's wheel

• stoneware
• terracotta

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