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Ming, n.2|mɪŋ|
[Chinese, lit. ‘bright, clear’.]
The name of a dynasty which ruled in China from 1368 to 1644; a ruler belonging to this dynasty. Also attrib.
[1671J. Ogilby tr. Montanus' Atlas Chinensis 485 Thus ended a Prince, perhaps the greatest in the World..: Together with him, the Name of the Empire, viz. Taiming, that is, Of great Brightness, after it had continu'd two hundred sixty six Years..was utterly extinguish'd. 1676China & France 19 The antient Kings of China were of the Family of Min, which signifies Light.] 1795W. Winterbotham Hist., Geogr. & Philos. View Chinese Empire i. 5 The whole of their emperors, abstracting from those who are said to have reigned in the fabulous times, are comprehended in twenty-two dynasties... 21. Ming,..1368. 22. Tsing, 1645. 1836J. F. Davis Chinese I. v. 185 The first Emperor of the Ming dynasty, which expelled the Mongols in 1366, had been servant to a monastery of bonzes, or priests of Budh. 1854Hist. China v. 56 Houng-nan, or the first Ming, died in 1398, after a reign of thirty years. 1940E. Pound Cantos lx. 91 And Japan kept peace even all through the great Ming rebellion. 1967D. Bloodworth Chinese Looking Glass vii. 68 When in the 17th century the eunuchs betrayed their Ming ruler, and the Forbidden City of Peking fell to rebels, the Emperor wrote a valedictory message on his yellow robe and strangled himself with his silken girdle.
b. Used attrib. and absol. of the porcelain of the Ming period (of which the finest examples are extremely rare and valuable).
1892J. D. Ball Things Chinese 309 A street hawker may be seen..ladling iced syrup out of Ming bowls, and there is hardly a butcher's shop without a large Ming jar. 1898W. G. Gulland Chinese Porc. I. 3 We must also remember that a large amount of Ming porcelain must have been destroyed at the end of the Ming dynasty. 1907E. Wharton Fruit of Tree ii. xiii. 209, I want to show you a set of Ming I picked up the other day. 1936R. Lehmann Weather in Streets iii. iv. 318 Just because she hasn't even the guts to put her own stockings on—she's to be treated like a Ming vase. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Pract. Cats 24 Down from the library came a loud ping From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 234/2 The standard Ming porcelain body was refined and white, capable of thin potting when necessary, and covered with a fairly even, clear glaze.
c. Used attrib. to denote colours characteristic of Ming porcelain, as Ming blue, Ming green, Ming yellow.
1926Textile Mercury 19 June 566/3 The Textile Colour Card Association's..new greens are Locarno, elfin, ming,..and Paradise greens. 1931B. Rackham in R. L. Hobson et al. Chinese Ceramics ii. 141 The blue..is quite different from the many tones of Ming blue,..and whatever may be the attractive qualities of the Ming blues in isolation, there can be no doubt that this later blue and white porcelain is far more effective. 1935J. P. Marquand (title) Ming yellow. 1966Country Life 30 June 1761/2 Shift-dresses..in white, Ming-green, navy or camel. 1969Vogue 1 Mar. 99 White wool tabard, edged with waves of Ming blue. |