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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
Glass-front cabinet doors elegantly show off your favorite china sets and dinnerware, and keep them safe while not in use.
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
For ceramics, make your way to PK Studio, where Italian architect turned artist Roberto Paparcone crafts minimalist vases and dinnerware—and invites visitors to try their hand at the pottery wheel themselves.
—Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Elegant table settings, dinnerware, serving pieces, and other objets d’art in the room represent the work of some of France’s most iconic artists and designers, including Christofle, Bernardaud, Hermes and others.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Keep scrolling to check out more Amazon deals on dinnerware, including one that’s exclusive to Prime members.
—Toni Sutton, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
For ceramics, make your way to PK Studio, where Italian architect turned artist Roberto Paparcone crafts minimalist vases and dinnerware—and invites visitors to try their hand at the pottery wheel themselves.
—Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Elegant table settings, dinnerware, serving pieces, and other objets d’art in the room represent the work of some of France’s most iconic artists and designers, including Christofle, Bernardaud, Hermes and others.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Keep scrolling to check out more Amazon deals on dinnerware, including one that’s exclusive to Prime members.
—Toni Sutton, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinnerware
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On land, louder environments like running alongside traffic might compete a little too much with talking audio – noise-canceling earbuds or over-ear headphones are better in this setting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2025
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In the forest and other natural settings, termites are beneficial insects that recycle woody debris, such as dead trees, and return nutrients to the soil.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Oct. 2025
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These three picks just scratch the surface of on-sale fall tableware and decor, so make sure to keep scrolling to shop more autumnal finds at Pottery Barn.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Cabana designs an in-house collection of tableware and home accessories, and is also a serial collaborator.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Get the look of fine china with the durability of high-temperature porcelain.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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My china is also a pattern wherein every piece is a different floral.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
2 Sep. 2025
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But the glaciers don’t stop at the shoreline; instead, colossal floating plates of ice hundreds of meters thick extend over the sea.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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My spaghetti noodles were swirled around three meatballs on my plate.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
20 Oct. 2025
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Jourdan is a relatively calm ghost (staff report objects being moved around the restaurant), but there’s a slightly more active spirit in the Courtyard Bar, where there have been three instances of an unknown source throwing a glass from across the room.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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The Winterwonder pass includes a flexible arrival time, expedited entry entrance to the Lilly House Lounge, a premium beverage and a fast pass access for food and drink, festive glasses, blinky lights and ticket insurance.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
21 Oct. 2025
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So instead of getting out your sad, chipped mixing bowls as your backup serving pieces, grab a three-piece set of these Trudeau porcelain serving bowls.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
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Also in September, robbers stole $11 million worth of porcelain works, described as national treasures, from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in the French town of Limoges.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
19 Oct. 2025
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Google’s GNoME architecture used graph networks (along with active learning) to zero in on low-energy crystal candidates.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Demure fit-and-flare silhouettes predominated on the runways and presentations, with fringe and crystal among the popular embellishments.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Their offerings included jewelry, soaps, paintings, sculpture, local honey, clothing, pottery, items for the home and garden, holiday decor and more.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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In her post, the model showed some highlights including encounters with ocean wildlife, snorkeling, bike rides and pottery.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Dinnerware.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinnerware. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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