Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of glazed earthenware, usually blue and white.
- noun Pottery made in this style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
delftware .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A style of blue and white
earthenware .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Susan Dzivak—a girl that I'dworshippedwhen I was a boy, a blonde Slovak beauty, my delft-blue-eyed lover for one tick of time, grown up and unclothed in the soft, shadowed light, who whispered to me, "It's time you learned wisdom."
All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams Robert Crisman 2011
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The pine dresser against the wall still held a few cracked pieces of blue-and-white delft.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Her delft blue eyes took on a decidedly militant sparkle, and a flush—that curse of all redheads—heated her porcelain skin.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Relief and gratitude blazed from her eyes, which were once again that beguiling delft blue.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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The furniture was sparse—a dresser with delft, a rough kitchen table with chairs, the armchair she sat in, and the rocking chair in which Mrs. Prendergast rocked, a black-and-white cat purring companionably on her lap.
Winter Bloom Tara Heavey 2010
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The delft blue eyes looked back at him unblinkingly.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Her delft blue eyes took on a decidedly militant sparkle, and a flush—that curse of all redheads—heated her porcelain skin.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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That shard of blue-and-white delft in her treasure box had come from somewhere along this coast.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Relief and gratitude blazed from her eyes, which were once again that beguiling delft blue.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Someone had stacked up dozens of conical limpet shells to form narrow, teetering towers on the shelves where delft once stood.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
chained_bear commented on the word delft
With capital D, a city in the Netherlands that was the home port of the Dutch East India Company, and the center of the Dutch ceramics industry, which attempted to replicate Chinese porcelain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. See also delftware.
February 2, 2007
bilby commented on the word delft
"That was something she scarcely needed to remind him of, though when he tried to get help he was reminded even more forcefully of the fact that most paragons learn sooner rather than later; that a cracked paragon is harder to dispose of than plain delft."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Paragon'.
September 6, 2008
qms commented on the word delft
Crowded in cupboards, stacked and shelfed
He hoarded the treasure of his delft.
The grip of obsession
Is much like possession:
To feed the demon the man is unselfed.
See more at Delftware.
May 26, 2014