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单词 nevers
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Neversn.

Brit. /nəˈvɛː/, U.S. /nəˈvɛ(ə)r(z)/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nevers.
Etymology: < Nevers, the name of a city in central France. Compare French faïences de Nevers, faïence nivernaise.
Ceramics.
I. Compounds.
1. Designating any of various types of pottery and glass manufactured at Nevers; esp. designating a type of deep blue-ground faience in the style of Italian maiolica, made there from the latter part of the 16th cent. to the 18th cent.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > French pottery
Moustiers1863
Nevers1874
Sceaux1884
Quimper1903
1863 W. Chaffers Marks & Monograms Pottery & Porcelain 93 Nevers, fine Faïence, in the Italian style, decorated in colours, sometimes like Faenza ware; also in blue en grisaille, as well as in a deep blue ground of enamel with splashes or spots of white.]
1874 New Q. Mag. Jan. 361 Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, set up..a manufacture of Majolica at Nevers. The Nevers ware soon lost its Italian character.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 630/1 (caption) Ewer of Nevers pottery; the design in white on dark-blue enamelled ground.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 198/1 Nevers faience, the chief Nevers pottery was founded early in the 17th cent. by Italian potters... Nevers glass.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 68/1 Nevers faience decorated with pseudo-oriental or oriental motifs in white, or white, yellow and orange.
1972 Times 21 June 16/4 A charming seventeenth-century Nevers glass picture depicting Diana surprised by Actaeon.
II. Simple uses.
2. Nevers faience. rare.
ΚΠ
1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain vii. 219 Specimens of Nevers are difficult to identify, owing to the similarity of their characteristics to those of the Rouen and other similar faiences.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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