Meaning & use
Treen
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Small household or utilitarian objects made of wood, especially antique wooden items such as bowls, spoons, or boxes.
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The museum's collection of treen included beautifully turned wooden bowls from the 18th century.
She collects treen, hunting for old wooden spoons and boxes at antique fairs.
A note on using this word
Treen comes from Old English "treowen," meaning "made of tree/wood," and is now mainly used by antique collectors and historians.
Words with a similar meaning
woodenware
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Made of wood (archaic adjective).
The farmhouse still had its original treen furnishings.
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