mealware
nounEtymology From meal + -ware.
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Utensils for holding, cooking, or serving a meal.
- The waitress started to remove the mealware.1970, John Jakes, Six-Gun Planet, Warner Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 25:
- The slender man hoisted the mealware from the coals and set it to the ground. “Food,” said Karlsson.1982, Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 242:
2 more examples
- When lay people go to a place of [practicing] the truth, they should be equipped with the three Dharma-robes, a willow twig, rinsing water, mealware, and a sitting cloth; […]1994, Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Chodo Cross, transl., Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, book 1, Dogen Sangha, published 2006, →ISBN, page 117:
- After Shorty set the items on the ground, he reached for the metal sliding door to retrieve the previous day’s mealware.2001, Christopher Metzger, Silent Rebellion, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 189: