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flatware

noun

Etymology

From flat + -ware.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “flat”
  2. derived from *flataz✻ — “flat”
  3. inherited from *flatją✻ — “floor”
  4. derived from *flati✻
  5. derived from flet
  6. derived from flet — “dwelling”
  7. borrowed from flet
  8. formed as flatware — “flat + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Eating utensils

    Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.

    • A girl without a nightgown or bathing suit. Who had never used two pieces of flatware to eat.
    • Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up.

  2. Plates, dishes and other relatively flat crockery.

    • The artsy set can now go to a Made By You—one of those places where you pay six times more to decorate your own mugs and dishes than it would cost to buy flatware that other people have decorated

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flatware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA