Sèvres

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See also: sevres, sevrés, and sèvres

English

Etymology

From French Sèvres.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sèvres

  1. A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.
  2. (often attributive) A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
    • 1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 2, in Modern Painters , volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section VI (Of Truth of Vegetation—Conclusion), § 7, page 123:
      [] let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 137:
      Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sèvres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 142:
      There was a bartop radio in the corner and a Sèvres china tea set on a copper tray beside a samovar.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛvʁ/
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Proper noun

Sèvres ?

  1. Sèvres (a town in France)