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dishes used for eating or serving food or drink
received three sets of dinnerware as wedding gifts
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Recent Examples of dinnerware
Fill your cart with design inspiration from Mazurek’s home, from elegant bedding to dinnerware — but don’t forget to add your own personal touch, too.
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Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
Scoop up seven of our favorite dinnerware sets from the collection below, with prices starting at $24.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
Stoneware: The most durable of all ceramic dinnerware, stoneware dinnerware sets are made from a coarser type of clay than porcelain but are usually kiln fired to similar temperatures.
—Tom Mylan, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2025
Stone Lain Coupe Dinnerware Set, Service For 4, Matte Brown
Upgrade your dinnerware with this chic matte brown set that comes with four dinner plates, four salad plates, four bowls, and four mugs.
—Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
Scoop up seven of our favorite dinnerware sets from the collection below, with prices starting at $24.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
Stoneware: The most durable of all ceramic dinnerware, stoneware dinnerware sets are made from a coarser type of clay than porcelain but are usually kiln fired to similar temperatures.
—Tom Mylan, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2025
Stone Lain Coupe Dinnerware Set, Service For 4, Matte Brown
Upgrade your dinnerware with this chic matte brown set that comes with four dinner plates, four salad plates, four bowls, and four mugs.
—Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinnerware
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In a management setting, as demands for skills are expected to change rapidly over the next five years, leaders might consider where to position particular skill sets, roles, or people in order to support collaboration.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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The value of telehealth for Alzheimer’s patients is underappreciated, despite clear needs for this care setting.—
Rosemary Laird,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
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Make the most of the indigo design by sourcing napkins and other tableware in a contrasting color.—
Erika Owen,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2025
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And better still: The events will coincide with an exclusive pop-up that showcases the company’s collaboration with the César Foundation, a collection that offers up unique takes on traditional tableware and other pieces inspired by the creations of French sculptor César.—
Martin Lerma,
Robb Report,
12 Dec. 2024
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Her Wall of Barely Used China Plates There’s fine china for eating, pulled out for special occasions and holidays, and then there’s fine china for the kitchen and dining room walls.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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The bath towels were packed in a sturdy box with packaging paper like Grandma’s fine china.—
Ticked Off,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Friday earthquake originated near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city of about 1.5 million, from rubbing tectonic plates along the Sagaing fault, which runs through the center of the country.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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Enemies are bloated, fat, and covered in armor, or are made of sinew and bone, standing two heads taller than the already hulking Slayer, while some perch on the back of what can only be described as flesh-dogs mounted by generic looking demons adorned in cruel looking plate.—
Kazuma Hashimoto,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, the kitchen includes heated floors, electric blinds and access to the terrace through a folding glass wall.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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With its blue aventurine glass dial studded with luminous dots, this watch is a reminder of the wonder of the galaxy.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Right next to them is a little white porcelain cat, outfitted with a simple lacy wedding veil.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
26 Feb. 2025
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Through a doorway is the kitchen, with a gas range and a white porcelain farmhouse sink.—
Angela Serratore,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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Costume designer Shirley Kurata has clearly lost the thread, putting Malkovich in Nehru jackets embellished with sprays of crystals, a sarong, gloves with rings on top and platform shoes.—
Mark Kennedy,
Boston Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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The fragrance was designed to be as nuanced and intricate as the crystal bottle its housed in.—
Alexis Bennett Parker,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2025
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Experts identified the jug as an amphora — a piece of pottery sometimes used in funeral rituals to hold offerings or human remains, or as a grave marker.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2025
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Uptown Art Expo: Featuring more than 140 artists with displays of glass, jewelry, mosaics, paintings, photography, pottery, sculpture and more all available for purchase.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Dinnerware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinnerware. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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