graniteware

graniteware
/gran"it wair'/, n.
1. a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
2. pottery with a speckled appearance like that of granite.
3. a semivitreous white pottery somewhat harder than earthenware.
[1890-95; GRANITE + WARE1]

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