stemware

Drinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes.

Noun

  1. Drinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes.
    • Selected nonheat-resistant and nonheat-tempered tableware and kitchenware: […] Tableware: […] Machine-made tumblers, goblets and other stemware - 1947, “No. 957.—Pressed and Blown Glassware—Quantity and Value of...
    • [T]he stemware and glassware fragments were recovered from a brick walkway uncovered at a depth of 60 cm, located 30 cm west of the house foundation. The stemwares could have been broken while being transported to or...
    • Glancing around at the tables, I noticed they were still perfectly set the way Pierre left them: linen birds of paradise atop each plate, salt and pepper shakers, stemware and flatware, all arranged with precision. -...

Origin

Etymology tree English stem Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English stemware From stem + -ware.

Forms

stemwares