Earthenware or pottery, especially coarse pottery or tiles; clay used for making pottery.
From Old English clam or clom, related to clay and Germanic words for sticky earth. The word has been used since Anglo-Saxon times to describe earthenware and pottery.
This is a wonderfully ancient English word—it takes you back to Anglo-Saxon craftspeople making rough pottery and tiles, the everyday ceramics that kept roofs dry and food in containers.
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