英和和英

名詞

amberware (uncountable)

1. Articles made from amber.
   • 1897 March 30, Democrat and Chronicle, volume 65, number 89, Rochester, N.Y., page 4, column 2:

     Owing to a press of orders the Clyde Glass Works will commence work on amberware on Thursday next.

   • 1913 February 17, The Los Angeles Times, part II, page 7:

     And in addition to the ivory inlaid in gold figurings— / —are some of opalescent pearl, elegantly patterned in inlaid designs of silver and blue enamel! And the fashionable amberware, inlaid with gold.

   • 1951 September–October, “Do You Know-About Amber?”, in Polish Foreign Trade, number 7, Warsaw: The Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, page 30:

     High-class cut amberware requires special processing. […] The export of amberware is in the hands of ”VARIMEX”, Polish Company for Foreign Trade, Wilcza 50/52, Warsaw.

   • 1985, Olgierd Budrewicz, Introduction to Poland, Miami, Fla.: The American Institute of Polish Culture, →LCCN, page 100:

     Numerous examples of Polish amberware can be seen in museums in Malbork, Gdansk, Slupsk and elsewhere.

   • 1985, Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., Teresa Turvey and Denise Branch Wydra, editors, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Italy, 1985, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 216:

     Notice the amberware; Aquileia was famous for its amber, a tradition later exported to Venice to become the basis of its famous glass industry.

   • 2009, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, DK, →ISBN, page 221:

     It was once Vilnius’s commercial centre but today the street is popular with visitors hunting for amberware and other local products.