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The costume your food wears to convince you it's fancy.
means The plates, bowls, and serving dishes used for eating meals, especially as a matched set.
from A straightforward compound: 'dinner' (from Old French disner, rooted in Latin for breaking one's fast) plus 'ware,' the old Germanic word for manufactured goods — the same '-ware' in 'silverware' and 'software.' The word simply names what dinner is served on.
- bone china
- actually contains cow bone ash, up to 50%
- chip resistance
- stoneware wins, porcelain just looks prettier losing
- plate size creep
- standard dinner plates grew 2+ inches since 1960s
- fine china irony
- too fragile for daily use, so it sits unused