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Dresden|ˈdrɛzdən|
The name of a town in Saxony, used attrib. or absol. to designate a variety of white porcelain made at Meissen near Dresden, or an object made of this, characterized by elaborate decoration and figure-pieces in delicate colourings. Hence (often attrib.) used to designate anything of a delicate or frail prettiness.
1735E. Finch Let. 29 May in E. Burton Georgians at Home (1967) iv. 156 To gett either old or Dresden China. Ibid., Exchang'd for a sett of Dresden. 1750H. Walpole Let. 23 June (1941) IX. 106 On the cabinet stood a pair of Dresden candlesticks. 1752[see china n.1 3 b]. 1753Hanway Trav. II. 226 Fourteen apartments filled with China and Dresden porcelain. 1756[see porcelain 1 a]. 1850Thackeray Pendennis I. xxxviii. 372 Wherever you sate down there were Dresden shepherds and shepherdesses convenient at your elbow. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 9/1 Extra Fine Paris Sateens... New artistic designs in small Dresden china effects. 1899J. M. Ward One Poor Scruple i. v. 65 Madge's delicate, Dresden-china, little figure. 1905W. Holman Hunt Pre-Raph. I. 49 Etty was cramped by a taste for Dresden-china prettiness. 1908Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 1/1 His own Dresden-china doll of a wife. 1912C. Mackenzie Carnival iv. 38 Her honey-coloured hair and Dresden cheeks fascinated the impressionable child with all the wonder of an expensive doll. Ibid. xv. 155 You do look like a Dresden shepherdess with your heart-shaped face and slanting eyes. 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock 33 The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece. 1962G. K. Hunter John Lyly iv. 233 Phebe, the Dresden-china shepherdess. 1970D. Devine Illegal Tender i. 5 How bored she was with that face! Fair hair, big blue eyes, little pouting mouth, pink and white complexion. Like a doll. Yet Chris approved. ‘A Dresden Shepherdess,’ he'd called her. |