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Definition of Crockeries
1. crockery [n] - See also: crockery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crockeries
Literary usage of Crockeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... and the street filled with carts and vans of numerous small tradesmen, vending
cheeses, or cheap crockeries, or ready-made clothes and such goods. ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of
gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheap crockeries, brushes, ..."
3. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"We put aside the coal-mines, of which the activity is considered with favour; we
wish above all to speak of the workshops, the rolling mills, the crockeries ..."
4. Publications by Parker Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"If you handle birds' eggs or kill a spider you will always be breaking crockeries.
If a branch of a tree should give way some one would die. ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... tea out of his own earthenware, and the crockeries of no two officers are alike.
I saw various specimens in a pantry close by, waiting to be called for. ..."
6. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.: His Personal History by Samuel Smiles (1894)
"I thought of nothing less than some shelves, or perhaps a whole floor, of vases
and crockeries had given way, and that you had been carried clown with them ..."
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