glassware

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   articles made of glass, especially drinking glasses, jugs, and other tableware

   The restaurant wrapped its delicate glassware before the move.

2. 2
   noun

   glass vessels and apparatus used in a laboratory

   All laboratory glassware must be rinsed with distilled water after the experiment.

Formed from glass + -ware, the noun-forming element meaning manufactured articles of a specified kind. Glass comes through Old English glaes from a Germanic word associated with brightness or shining; ware comes from Old English waru ("goods, merchandise").

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