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Tunbridge|ˈtʌnbrɪdʒ|
a. Used attrib. to designate water from the chalybeate spring at Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 62 Tunbridgewater... Good for Splenitick distempers. 1678T. Browne Let. 1 May (1946) 92 He may hopefully drink Tunbridge waters..if they passe well. c1702C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) 125 Tunbridge waters whose property is to retrieve lost limbs that are benumbed. 1967E. S. Turner Taking Cure iii. 46 Nothing was to be gained from the Tunbridge waters unless the person who drank them was facetious, merry..and jovial.
b. Also Tonbridge. Used attrib. (rarely absol.) to designate wooden articles with a characteristic mosaic decoration, made in and about Royal Tunbridge Wells and nearby Tonbridge by slicing cross-sections from a bundle of thin strips of differently coloured wood glued together, to obtain identical copies of the pattern for sticking on the article to be decorated; chiefly in Tunbridge ware.
1773R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. ii. xiii. 101 His Tunbridge-ware tobacco-dish. c1795Advt. C. Fellows's Circul. Library, Salisbury, With various Articles in Tunbridge, Ivory, and Morocco. 1816Jane Austen Emma III. iv. 50 A pretty little Tunbridge-ware box. 1842Marryat Perc. Keene I. ix. 98 In the front windows..were..prints, caricatures, and Tonbridge ware. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 607/1 Tunbridge ware..includes work tables, boxes, toys, &c. 1901J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 61 Developments of the art of what may be termed ‘wood mosaic’, and amongst these may be reckoned ‘Tarsia work’ and ‘Tonbridge work’. 1934N. Marsh Man lay Dead xiii. 237, I suddenly remembered..a funny Victorian casket made out of inlaid wood... Antique dealers call those caskets..Tunbridge boxes. 1973Times 25 Aug. 11/5 It has a Tunbridge-ware change-tray and an Edward vii crown set into the base. |