rubywareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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rubyware (uncountable)

1. Articles made from ruby.
   • 1953, Irving Shulman, The Square Trap, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 349:

     “The best thing on such a day is a hot drink,” his mother stood close to him as she poured the black chocolate over the spoon that rested against the rim and bottom of the rubyware cup.

   • 1986, Carl F[erdinand] H[oward] Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, Waco, Tex.: Word Books, →ISBN, page 97:

     A Baptist deacon whom we met in church the next day, a factory foreman, salvaged for us virtually a full service of magnificent rubyware which we still treasure.

   • 1988 October 6, The Republican, volume 111, number 32, Oakland, Md., page C-16:

     […] service for 6 Noritake china, several sterling silver pieces, rubyware, mantel clock, knick-knacks, brassware stemware, collection of Avon bottles, lot of TV and radio testing equipment, plus several truck loads of 1” and 2” lumber, and many other items.

   • 2003, Denise McGann, Chic Country Style, New York, N.Y.: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 119:

     It could as easily have been a selection of copper, wood, or enamelware, or a pleasing arrangement of milk glass, rubyware, all-white porcelain, pickle containers, compotes, or pedestal banana boats in cut crystal.