broomware
nounEtymology From broom + -ware.
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Brooms collectively.
- 1 case brush and broomware1861 February 23, George Tayler, “Just Received”, in The Lyttelton Times, volume XV, number 865, page 5, column 5:
- SATURDAY, March 18, J. P. Davies & Co., WILL SELL AT SALESROOM : WHARF : ST., AT 11 O’CLOCK, A. M., Brush and Broomware, Long and Short Brooms, Hair, Cloth, Hat, Shoe, Tooth, and Nail Brushes.1864 March 17, Victoria Daily Chronicle, volume III, number 120, Victoria, Vancouver Island: Higgins & McMillan, page [2], column 4:
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- The brushware and broomware factories of the colony turned out in 1881 £41,700 worth of goods as against £12,144 worth of imports.1884, The Year-Book of Australia, page 212, column 2:
- Drainage pipes and tiles, 20 per cent; earthen, flooring, and gardening tiles, 20 per cent; earthen gas retorts, 20 per cent; earthenware, stoneware, and broomware, 20 per cent; fire bricks and fire clay goods, 20 per cent; china and parianware and porcelain, 20 per cent.1888 May 31, “The Protective Tariff”, in Taranaki Herald, volume XXXVII, number 8177, New Plymouth, page [3], column 1:
- The entire plant necessary for such a factory on a scale large enough to treat all tile crops in this district could be obtained for an outlay of £10, and with the little knowledge necessary for tile transformation of the stalks into broomware any cultivator of the grain would have a very profitable and easy method of dealing with what is comparatively a waste portion of his crop all ready to his hand.1900 April 5, The Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle, number 3044, page [2], column 3:
- Mr. M‘Nab also stocks all class of household ironmongery, crockery, glassware, and earthenware, together with broomware and all useful household requisites.1905 December 30, The Freeman’s Journal, volume LVI, number 3493, Sydney, N.S.W., page 3, column 2: