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Revere, n. Chiefly U.S.|rəˈvɪə(r)|
Also Paul Revere.
The name of Paul Revere (1735–1818), American silversmith renowned for his midnight ride in April 1775 to warn the American colonial forces of the approach of the British, used attrib. and absol. to designate silverware made by Revere, or in a similar Colonial style by his contemporaries or as modern reproductions. (Proprietary as a name for jewellery and copper-bottomed cooking pots.)
Revere is used in preference to Paul Revere to designate silver actually made by Revere.
c1901in Outl. Life & Wks. P. Revere (Towle Manuf. Co.) 17 It is reserved for the ‘Paul Revere’ to exemplify the elegant simplicity which..distinguishes the taste of our forefathers. a1908in Hist. Publ. Towle Manuf. Co. 36 The Paul Revere ware here illustrated exemplifies these qualities to a marked degree and was prepared as much to supplement the Paul Revere pattern of flat-ware..as to create in the spirit of this famous colonial craftsman an artistically meritorious design. 1929National Republic Nov. 32/1 In an exhibition held in Boston in 1906, sixty-five Revere pieces were exhibited. 1950House Beautiful July 56 (caption) The classic Paul Revere bowl symbolizes the typically American faculty for simplification. Today Lunt's reproduction (above) captures this same purity of design. 1974North Myrtle Beach (S. Carolina) Times 17 Apr. 3/6 (Advt.), 9-in. silver Revere bowl. 1976G. McDonald Confess, Fletch vii. 39 A Revere coffee service awaited them on a butler's table. 1986Christian Science Monitor 5 May 38/2 The couple received a silver Paul Revere bowl from the society. |