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Sèvres
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sevres sevrés sèvres
English
Etymology
From en fr Sèvres.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsɛvɹə/
Proper noun
en town c/France on the outskirts of Paris.
VI 1 June 1871 9 122 but at Sèvres and other places for shaping of courtly clay, the charmingest things were done,
en often attributive A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
I 2 7 123 160 let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sèvres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows. VIII 137
en 1939 w:Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep 142 Penguin 2011 There was a bartop radio in the corner and a Sèvres china tea set on a copper tray beside a samovar.
Translations
town in France
Armenian: hy Սեւր
Anagrams
en eerssv 'verses Esvres serves severs verses
en Ceramics
French
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Paris--Sèvres.ogg Paris
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Bastenbas (Bastenbas (Lingua))-Sèvres.wav
fr ɛvʁ 1
Proper noun
fr town dept/Hauts-de-Seine r/Île-de-France c/France Sèvres