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Sevres ware   Listen
noun
Sevres ware  n.  Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... overlooked by recent historians, he was evidently a man who had some pretensions to culture. He had his portrait painted by a foreign artist of considerable talent—it still hangs in the sitting-room—and he bought several pieces of Sevres ware, the last of which stands on a commode in the corner and contrasts strangely with the rude home-made furniture and squalid appearance of the apartment. Among the books which bear his name are the tragedies of Sumarokof, ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace



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