Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A style of glazed earthenware, usually blue and white.
- n. Pottery made in this style.
Wiktionary
- n. A style of blue and white earthenware.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as delftware.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration
Etymologies
- After the Dutch city of Delft. (Wiktionary)
- After Delft (where it was first made). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
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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.”
“Relief and gratitude blazed from her eyes, which were once again that beguiling delft blue.”
“The delft blue eyes looked back at him unblinkingly.”
“The pine dresser against the wall still held a few cracked pieces of blue-and-white delft.”
“That shard of blue-and-white delft in her treasure box had come from somewhere along this coast.”
“Someone had stacked up dozens of conical limpet shells to form narrow, teetering towers on the shelves where delft once stood.”
“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.”
“The Netherlands is popularly known for its windmills, cheese, delft and gouda pottery, dikes, tulips, bicycles, and social tolerance!”
“Elaborate paneling was installed in several rooms and fine marble and imported ceramic delft tiles graced the fireplaces.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘delft’.
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color (blue)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, blue, descriptive, randomness )Blue, Sapphire, Turquoise, Aqua, Cobalt, Royal, Navy, Pavonated/Peacock, Azure, Egg, Water, Sea and 177 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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Proper nouns that are admissible in S...
A good way to have an opponent make a bad challenge.
japan, texas, maya, brazil, delft, mikado, apache, pawnee, titian, egyptian, china, john
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Bookworm
patrimony, salivates, bloviate, voile, cholo, tipples, golfed, gynecology, tolerate, miscreants, harries, cougar and 58 more...
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place to be
"Just hand me down, give me a place to be."
~ Nick Drakeparnassus, belarus, lisbon, beulah, minnetonka, peoria, trafalgar, albemarle, antigonish, inverness, poughkeepsie, pitcairn and 4 more...
Tweets
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bilby "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'. Sep 6, 2008
chained_bear 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. Feb 2, 2007