Sèvres

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Sèvres In ceramics, high-quality porcelain made from 1765 to the present day at a factory in the Paris suburb of Sèvres, France. Pieces are either of soft-paste (a porcellaneous substance) or hard-paste (true porcelain).

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Sèvres

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Sèvres Name of a town in France, near Paris, designating a costly porcelain. XVIII (Sev(r)e).

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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