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flatware (n.)
1851, from
flat
(adj.), which was used from late 14c. of plates, dishes, saucers in a sense "shallow; smooth-surfaced" +
ware
(n.). Originally as distinguished from
hollow ware
; U.S. sense of "domestic cutlery" recorded by 1895.
