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Plymouth|ˈplɪməθ|
[Name of a city in Devon.]
1. a. Applied to the first hard-paste porcelain to be made in England, by a method patented in 1768 by W. Cookworthy of Plymouth (subsequently of Bristol: see Bristol 2 b).
1816W. Burt Rev. Mercantile State Plymouth xvi. 174 The substance serving as a base for the Plymouth porcelain was a granite..composed of a reddish felspar in pieces of a tolerable size, quartz in small grains, and black scaly mica. 1857J. Marryat Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 2) xii. 289 The Plymouth china has become very scarce. 1869C. Schreiber Jrnl. 11 Sept. (1911) I. 36 There C.S. discovered a coloured group of Venus and Cupid..valuable as being Plymouth. 1873H. Owen Two Centuries Ceramic Art in Bristol vii. 193 The quantity of the Plymouth porcelain preserved to us, compared with the amount of Bristol manufacture in the possession of collectors, is relatively very small. 1946F. S. Mackenna (title) Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol porcelain. 1974Country Life 28 Feb. (Suppl.) 43 Set of four Plymouth figures of the Continents, 12½ in. high.
b. Applied to a coarse, brown and yellow earthenware manufactured at Plymouth in the 18th century.
1878L. Jewitt Ceramic Art Gt. Brit. I. x. 338 (heading) Plymouth earthenware... The manufacture of china-ware having ceased in Plymouth in 1774 this useful and elegant art was lost to the town. Some years later rough common brown and yellow earthenware was made here. 1960H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 222/1 Plymouth earthenware, coarse earthenware (brown and yellow) was manufactured here in the 18th cent., but gave way about 1810 to the production of painted or printed cream colour.
2. Applied to a variety of gin orig. made in the west of England.
1864C. Tovey Brit. & Foreign Spirits iii. 118 An imitation Hollands is made by some rectifiers, and meets with a sale in Cornwall and in the West of England. Plymouth Gin is somewhat of the character of Hollands. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 237/2 Plymouth has few manufactures, the principal being biscuits..and the celebrated Plymouth gin. 1920G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-Book vii. 104 More recent conditions, when in England and Scotland, excellent brandy cost five shillings a bottle;..and gin, whether ‘squareface’ or London or Plymouth, not much more than half a crown. 1951R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine ix. 121 Plymouth gin..has rather more of the distinctive flat juniper taste. 1967J. B. Priestley It's Old Country iv. 43 Large pink Plymouth for me, cobber. 1968J. D. MacDonald Girl in Plain Brown Wrapper iv. 35, I took one of the big glasses and laid an impressive belt of Plymouth atop the cubes.
See also Plymouth Brethren, Plymouth cloak. |