Cambridge sez: "used, often in shops, to refer to items of the same material or type, especially items used in cooking and serving food: tableware, the kitchenware department."

"And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day..." Nehemiah 10:31 AV

I am out the door and on my way to diocesan convention. Won't be back until Sunday night. There will be several vendors there (including bibliopoles). One wonders if one will be able to buy some churchware, or clergyware, or something.