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Poole|puːl| The name of a town in Dorset, used attrib. to designate a type of clay suitable for pottery found near there, or pottery manufactured there.
1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 229/2 Of importance next to it [sc. kaolin], as potter's material, is the ‘Poole clay’ of Dorsetshire. 1924Design in Mod. Industry: Year-Bk. of Design & Industries Assoc. 1923–24 51 (caption) The painted dish in the upper illustration is a piece of Poole pottery, and shows how essentially decorative simple colour groupings may appear on surfaces uncomplicated by needless corrugations. 1938Decorative Art p. x, Poole pottery... If there is a mantleshelf..it is a narrow one, but there are Poole Pots to meet the difficulty. 1957[see Dorset]. 1971R. Rendell No More Dying Then i. 11 There were flowers..in the Poole pottery vases. |