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Wedgwood1 (ˈwɛdʒwʊd
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Definitions
noun
- ®
- pottery produced, esp during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at the Wedgwood factories
- such pottery having applied classical decoration in white on a blue or other coloured ground
adjective
- relating to or characteristic of such pottery ⇒
Wedgwood blue
Example Sentences Including 'Wedgwood'
"She had blue eyes the colour of Wedgwood china, and I noticed that her hands were free of hardware.Fools Gold
Andrew McClintock raised his eyes to the ceiling, seeming to survey the delicate moulding, the Wedgwood medallions.The Ambassador's Women
BULL in a china shop seems the only way to describe PRINCE PHILIP's visit to the Wedgwood pottery factory in Staffordshire yesterday.Sun, News of the World (1999)
For each one, Wedgwood is donating $5 to the hospital, to be matched by William Ashley for each sale at its stores.Globe and Mail (2003)
Irishman Brian Patterson took his most famous employee on a tour of the Wedgwood pottery plant in Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent in England.Sun, News of the World (1999)
Mumbai's social chit-chat will no longer be confined to, "Have you got a Wedgwood ?India Today (2000)
Once, she accidentally broke one of Sheila's Wedgwood plates and stuffed the two broken bits under the sofa.GYPSY MASALA (2004)
The lack of support from any of the institutional shareholders begs the question: why didn't Waterford Wedgwood canvass their support?Irish Times (2002)
There was nothing distinctively `Josiah Wedgwood ' about the forms of the pieces themselves.JOSIAH WEDGWOOD: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment (2004)
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