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Definition of "crackleware" []

  • Glazed pottery or glassware bearing a decorative surface network of fine cracks. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "crackleware" in a sentence
  • "The natural redness of his face had gone, leaving it a network of tiny red veins so that his skin looked like crackleware."
  • "Five minutes later, as they sat round sipping out of the famous crackleware cups mentioned in so many books of reminiscence, the sensation of calamity which had returned to Mr Campion as he came up the staircase burst into his fullest mind."
  • "The striped breastplate of a damascened suit of Milanese armour glittered in one corner; loves and nymphs of porcelain, Chinese grotesques, vases of _céladon_ and crackleware, Saxon and old Sèvres cups encumbered the shelves and nooks of the apartment."
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