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单词 lowestoft
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Lowestoftn.

Brit. /ˈləʊ(ᵻ)stɒft/, U.S. /ˈloʊ(ə)ˌstɔft/, /ˈloʊ(ə)ˌstɑft/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Lowestoft.
Etymology: < Lowestoft, the name of a town in Suffolk, England, where this kind of porcelain was manufactured.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating a soft-paste porcelain made at Lowestoft from c1757 to c1801, and items made from this.
ΚΠ
1790 E. Gillingwater Hist. Acct. Lowestoft ix. 423 It was agreed upon to open a subscription..in order to raise a sum sufficient for building a man of war..on which occasion the town of Lowestoft subscribed as follows:—Mr Walker, for the proprietors of the Lowestoft porcelain manufactory £10 10s. 0d.
1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) x. 106 Two pretty old Lowestoft bowls.
1974 Country Life 6 June 1517/2 Rare Lowestoft coffee pot..circa 1776.
2011 M. Houghton Pitch Uncertain 84 It was also his answer to his own father, a stern and didactic collector of Early American furniture, English Lowestoft china and embroidered wall samplers.
II. Simple uses.
2. Lowestoft porcelain.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > English porcelain
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1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. 9 June in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) x. 120 In the window was a most beautiful tea-set of old blue Lowestoft.
1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xviii. 181 ‘But what a terrible teapot.’.. ‘It's old Lowestoft.’
1968 R. H. R. Smithies Shoplifter (1969) 8 A small irregular pair of Georgian silver candlesticks flanked a bowl of armorial Lowestoft..the gold tracery glittering against the ultramarine glaze and the creamy porcelain.
2003 Cincinnati Enquirer (Nexis) 4 Jan. 3 For years Chinese Export porcelain was referred to as ‘Oriental Lowestoft’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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