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Wedgwood|ˈwɛdʒwʊd|
Also incorrectly Wedgewood.
[A proper name: see below.]
1. a. Used attrib. to designate the pottery made by Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95) and his successors at Etruria, Staffs. The best-known kinds are vases, plaques, medallions, etc., of fine clay lightly glazed, with classical designs in white relief on a blue or black ground.
Sometimes spelt with lower-case initial. Now a proprietary name both in the U.K. (since 1876) and the U.S. (since 1906).
1787Colman Inkle & Yarico iii. i, She's..quite dark; but very elegant; like a Wedgwood tea-pot. 1798Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 568 A piece of black Wedgwood-pottery. Ibid., Wedgwood-ware. 1819J. G. Children Chem. Anal. 374 A still simpler..method is to place the filters in a wedgewood basin on the sand bath. 1861J. Gardner Househ. Med. 410 Two Wedgwood-ware mortars..and pestles to match. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6897, Solid jasper, that is the material now exclusively called Old Wedgwood Ware. 1873Sir J. D. Hooker in L. Huxley Life (1918) II. 133, I sent Gladstone a Wedgwood medallion of my Father. 1876Trade Marks Jrnl. 2 Aug. 325 Wedgwood. Godfrey Wedgwood..trading under the Firm of Josiah Wedgwood and Sons..Pottery Manufacturers... Pots. 2823. 28th Feb. 1876. 1906Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 Dec. 1671/1 Wedgwood. Particular description of goods.—Porcelain, stoneware, and earthenware, including Jasper.
b. Used attrib. and absol. to designate the blue colour which is characteristic of Wedgwood ware.
1900Bladud (Bath) 28 Mar. 6/3 You will recollect how many of the Christmas cards were wedgewood blue last year. Ibid. 7/1 The wedgewood frock I have described. 1909Daily Graphic 20 Oct. 13/2 Touches of cherry colour or Wedgwood blue insets of velvet. 1923Daily Mail 19 Feb. 1 (Advt.), Coloured Jap silks (36 inches wide)... In pink, coral, wedgwood, helio, [etc.]. 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 41 Her angry Wedgwood eyes held his.
c. n. = Wedgwood pottery or ware. Also, with pl., a piece or specimen of this.
1863Sir J. D. Hooker in L. Huxley Life (1918) II. 78 Wedgwoods are an unspeakable relief to me. I look over them every Sunday morning, and poke into all the little second-hand shops I pass in London, seeking medallions. 1890Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Mar. 3/1 Mr. Cornelius Cox's unique collection of wedgwood. 1892Ibid. 25 Mar. 6/3 The very choice collection of old Wedgwood belonging to the late Mr. W. D. Holt, of Liverpool.
2. Designating the scale of temperature used in the pyrometer invented by Josiah Wedgwood for testing the heat of kilns. The zero corresponds to 1077° F.
1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 510 Flint-glass melts at the temperature of 19° Wedgewood. |