Plymouthn.
/ˈplɪməθ/, U.S. /ˈplɪməθ/ I. Compounds.
1.
a. attributive. Designating hard-paste porcelain of a type manufactured by a method patented in 1768 by William Cookworthy of Plymouth in Devon (subsequently of Bristol: see Bristol n. 1b).Plymouth porcelain was the first hard-paste porcelain to be made in England.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of English pottery
Liverpool1750
Wedgwood1787
Mason1804
Plymouth1816
Rockingham1840
Leeds1863
Jackfield1866
Spode1869
Whieldon1869
Minton1871
Doulton1873
Toft1878
Lambeth1884
Wrotham1884
metropolitan1891
Astbury1904
Pratt1920
Malling1933
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > English porcelain
Worcester1802
Plymouth1816
New Hall1829
Broseley porcelain1845
Colebrook Dale1855
Crown Derby1855
Caughley porcelain1868
Derby1868
Plymouth1869
Lowestoft1875
Longton1885
frit-porcelain1889
Coalport1899
porcelain making1903
Goss1906
Longton Hall1925
Pinxton1928
1816 W. 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.
1857 J. Marryat Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 2) xii. 289 The Plymouth china has become very scarce.
1873 H. Owen Two Cent. Ceramic Art 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.
1946 F. S. Mackenna (title) Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol porcelain.
1974 Country Life 28 Feb. (Suppl.) 43 Set of four Plymouth figures of the Continents, 12½ in. high.
1999 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 31 July 24 Inside, you'll see paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 16th century tapestries and 18th century Chinese and Plymouth porcelain.
b. Plymouth earthenware n. now rare a coarse, brown and yellow earthenware manufactured at Plymouth in the 18th cent.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > English pottery
Staffordshire ware1765
Staffordshire1774
crouch-ware1817
Newcastle1817
Mocha1837
Castleford1863
Jackfield ware1866
Plymouth earthenware1878
Wrotham1884
Jackfield1892
Ruskin1903
Sunderland lustre1903
Poole pottery1924
1878 L. Jewitt Ceramic Art 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.
1960 H. 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. Plymouth gin n. a variety of gin originally made in the west of England.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > kinds of gin
genever1689
South Sea1725
Hollands1753
Old Tom1810
deady1819
schiedam1821
Plymouth gin1854
unsweetened1886
London gin1920
Plymouth1920
ogogoro1982
1854 Times 5 Oct. 11 (heading) Plymouth Gin.
1864 C. 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.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 237/2 Plymouth has few manufactures, the principal being biscuits..and the celebrated Plymouth gin.
1951 R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine ix. 121 Plymouth gin..has rather more of the distinctive flat juniper taste.
1998 BBC Good Food Sept. 6/1 The last ‘London’ gin actually made in London—is still 40% abv, while Plymouth Gin has now been boosted back up to 41.2%.
II. Simple uses.
3. A type of hard-paste porcelain formerly manufactured at Plymouth. See sense 1a. rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > English porcelain
Worcester1802
Plymouth1816
New Hall1829
Broseley porcelain1845
Colebrook Dale1855
Crown Derby1855
Caughley porcelain1868
Derby1868
Plymouth1869
Lowestoft1875
Longton1885
frit-porcelain1889
Coalport1899
porcelain making1903
Goss1906
Longton Hall1925
Pinxton1928
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 11 Sept. (1911) I. 36 There C.S. discovered a coloured group of Venus and Cupid..valuable as being Plymouth.
1968 B. Hughes & T. Highes Collector's Encycl. Eng. Ceramics 124/1 Blue painted underglaze was the sole decoration on early Plymouth.
4. A type of gin originally made in the west of England. See sense 2.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > kinds of gin
genever1689
South Sea1725
Hollands1753
Old Tom1810
deady1819
schiedam1821
Plymouth gin1854
unsweetened1886
London gin1920
Plymouth1920
ogogoro1982
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. vii. 104 Excellent brandy cost five shillings a bottle;..and gin, whether ‘squareface’ or London or Plymouth, not much more than half a crown.
1968 J. 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.
2005 Orange County (Calif.) Register 27 Jan. For years, Plymouth was out of the U.S. market, but..it's making a comeback. The Jug Shop sells Plymouth for $24.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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