| 单词 | devonshire pottery | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasDevonshire pottery   Used attributively to designate various articles produced or animals reared in Devonshire, or characteristic of Devonshire, as  Devonshire cake,  Devonshire cider,  Devonshire pie,  Devonshire pottery,  Devonshire sheep,  Devonshire tea;   Devonshire cream n. a thick clotted cream.  Devonshire slipper n. (see quot. 1921).  Devonshire wainscot n. a species of moth,  Leucania putrescens (see wainscot n. 4). ΚΠ 1747    H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 72  				A Devonshire Squab-Pye. 1791    Gentleman's Mag. 61  ii. 720  				I may therefore hope..to see the tables adorned with the regale of Devonshire cream. 1808    C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 347  				The Old Devonshire dim-faced nott sheep. 1825    H. Wilson Mem. III. 113  				She gave us most excellent Devonshire cream, and hot Devonshire cakes. 1837    W. Youatt Sheep vii. 253  				The Devonshire notts, or polled sheep used, forty or fifty years ago, to be at least middle-woolled, if not short-woolled sheep. 1845    G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 176  				Straw-plait... There are several descriptions of plait made in England— such as..the ‘Devonshire’. 1858    ‘G. Eliot’ Mr. Gilfil's Love-story i, in  Scenes Clerical Life I. 167  				The respective merits of the Devonshire breed and the short-horns. ?1881    Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages 		(?1885)	 57  				Devonshire Slipper Maker. 1893    C. M. Yonge  & C. R. Coleridge Strolling Players xxxvi. 336  				On the mantelpiece some Devonshire pottery. 1907    R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 310  				The Devonshire Wainscot (Leucania (Cirphis) putrescens). So far as the British distribution of this species is known, it seems to be confined to the coasts of South Devon and South Wales. 1907    E. Gosse Father & Son 		(1916)	 129  				A coating of that rich Western whitewash which looks like Devonshire cream. 1909    Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. p. i 		(advt.)	  				Symons' prize medal Devonshire Cyder. 1921    Dict. Occup. Terms 		(1927)	 §344  				Devonshire slipper maker; a brown saddler who makes the fitting known as a slipper for one type of lady's side saddle. 1928    E. Waugh Decline & Fall  ii. vi. 199  				The sale of brass toasting forks, picture post-cards and ‘Devonshire teas’. 1959    Listener 8 Oct. 599/2  				Another tasty and satisfying dish is Devonshire pie. 1959    R. D. Macleod Key to Names Brit. Butterflies & Moths 32/1  				L[eucania] putrescens, Devonshire W[ainscot]. 1970    D. Clark Sweet Poison i. 29  				Devonshire ice cream. Devonshire cider—Devonshire everything. < as lemmas  | 
	
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