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potteries

noun

plural of pottery

as in ceramics

articles made of baked clay we picked up some ceramic vases in a pottery store

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Recent Examples of potteries There used to be scads of potteries in the area, which enjoyed an abundance of clay, but all the potteries had closed, run out of business by cheap imports. —

Mary Norris, New Yorker, 1 May 2026

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ceramics

Noun

Along with her other creative endeavors, Reidy Watts, also known as Nika Killa Watts, was a resident artist at Clayroom SF, a ceramics studio with locations in San Francisco, Oakland and San Mateo.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
All the fare comes on plates and in bowls handmade by Taura in his ceramics workshop; after the Arab oven was unearthed, Taura started crafting his own dinnerware to connect with the hotel’s roots.

— Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026