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tinware

noun
tin·​ware | \ ˈtin-ËŒwer How to pronounce tinware (audio) \

Definition of tinware

: articles and especially utensils made of tinplate

Examples of tinware in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Winners who came to claim their prizes received empty bottles or blackened tinware from the store’s inventory of old junk. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, "What P. T. Barnum Understood About America," 29 July 2019

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First Known Use of tinware

1758, in the meaning defined above

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