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Marseilles|mɑːˈseɪlz|
Also 8 Marsailles.
[The Eng. name of a seaport (in Fr. Marseille) in southern France; used attrib. and ellipt.]
1. A stiff cotton fabric, similar to piqué. Also Marseilles quilting.
1762Bickerstaffe Love in Village iii. iv. (1765) 60 Four counterpanes in Marsailles quilting. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 223 Her exterior garment was always quilted, varying..from simple stuff, or fine white dimity, or an obsolete manufacture called Marseilles, up to silk and satin. 1893G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 234 White waistcoats of Marseilles quilting were generally worn.
2. Marseilles hartwort, French hartwort, Seseli tortuosum (formerly massiliense). Marseilles vinegar, Acetum prophylacticum or thieves' vinegar.
1822Paris Pharmacologia (ed. 5) II. 15 note, Thieves Vinegar, or Marseilles Vinegar. 1856in Mayne Expos. Lex.
3. Applied attrib. to a type of pottery produced in Marseilles during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
1870C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 101 Bought..cover of Marseilles ware,..two Marseilles plates with Chinese figures. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 302/2 The subsequent history of Marseilles faience is one of great trade expansion and the multiplication of factories... The death blow was given to the industry by the increased demand for earthenware of English type, and the French Revolution. 1974Times 29 Oct. 19/4 A fine Marseilles Veuve Perrin soup tureen. |