Sèvres
See also: sevres, sevrés, and sèvres
English
Etymology
From French Sèvres.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛvɹə/
Proper noun
Sèvres
- A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.
- (often attributive) A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:
- 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 Sevres 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 2011, p. 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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Translations
town in France
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Anagrams
- 'verses, Esvres, serves, severs, verses
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛvʁ/
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Proper noun
Sèvres ?
- Sèvres (a town in France)