Definition of "earthen" []

• Made of earth or clay: an earthen fortification; an earthen pot. (adjective)
• Earthly; worldly. (adjective)

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• "It was not only because we had just passed through our seven lean years, cooking in earthen vessels, eating black bread on holidays and wearing cotton; it was chiefly because these wooden chairs and tin pans were American chairs and pans that they shone glorious in our eyes."
• "There he sat down to rest a while by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers."
• "They put this water in earthen jars to cool, in order to render it fit for drinking, but it never becomes fresh and cold."