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Waterford|ˈwɔːtəfəd|
The name of a city in the south-east of Ireland, used attrib. and absol. to designate glassware first manufactured there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, esp. drinking glasses and chandeliers.
1783Dublin Evening Post 4 Oct. in M. S. D. Westropp Irish Glass (1920) iii. 69 Waterford Glass House. George and William Penrose having established an extensive glass manufacture in this city, their friends and the public may be supplied with all kinds of plain and cut flint glass. 1852J. F. Maguire Industrial Movement in Ireland 102 The Waterford glass-house was in active work up to the year 1845, and had earned the highest reputation for its glass throughout the country. 1898Sale Catal. in Country Life (1974) 26 Sept. 854/2 Waterford and Cork cut glass. 1917W. J. Locke Red Planet xxi. 269 A precious old Waterford claret jug. 1936M. Kennedy Together & Apart iii. 211 Come and look at this glass... It's Waterford. 1940J. Cary Charley is my Darling lx. 324 A magnificent seven-branch candlestick of Waterford glass. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 25 Apr. (1970) 125, I described the Savonnerie rug, the Waterford chandelier. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Oct. 7/3 (Advt.), Waterford crystal, a treasure hunter's delight, now on..sale. 1978J. Carroll Mortal Friends i. ii. 22 The few pieces of Waterford in the village had been loaned and were out, filled with jams and preserves. |