Meaning of Sèvres | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.
2. A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
   attributive, often

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Examples

“[…]but at Sèvres and other places for shaping of courtly clay, the charmingest things were done,[…]”

“[…]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.”

“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.”

“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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