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Salopian, a.1 and n.|səˈləʊpɪən|
[f. Salop, a name of Shropshire (evolved from Sloppesberie, an AF. corruption of OE. Scrobbesbyriᵹ, Shrewsbury, the county town) + -ian.]
A. adj.
a. Of or belonging to Shropshire.
1706Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. ii, Thou Peerless Princess of Salopian Plains. c1814Southey Affair Arroyo Molinos 38 Salopian vales. 1886T. L. Kington-Oliphant New English I. i. 9 A Salopian bard.
b. Designating a variety of porcelain made at the former Caughley manufactory (closed 1814) near Broseley, Shropshire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Also transf. Cf. Caughley.
1850J. Marryat Coll. Hist. Pott. & Porc. ix. 182 The Salopian ware is very similar to the Derby in pattern and colouring. 1857― Hist. Pott. & Porc. xii. 297 The early Salopian porcelain was originally made..at Caughley. 1910J. F. Blacker ABC of Collecting Old Eng. China (ed. 3) III. 49 Salopian blue is somewhat similar in tone to that of Worcester. 1933W. B. Honey Eng. Pott. & Proc. ii. xii. 190 The Caughley porcelain was known as ‘Salopian’. Ibid. 191 The Salopian blue-painting..was mostly cribbed from Worcester and Chantilly. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 354/1 Some Liverpool factories and that at Caughley (the ‘Salopian’ factory)..may be regarded as offshoots of Worcester.
c. Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating an alternative division of the Silurian comprising the Wenlockian and (lower) Ludlovian. Freq. absol.
1879C. Lapworth in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. III. Table facing p. 455 Silurian System: Middle Division (Salopian). 1880― in Ibid. V. 48 The second natural division of the Silurian system is undoubtedly Murchison's Great Mudstone series, which includes the so-called Wenlock and Lower Ludlow groups... In Shropshire this great mudstone or Salopian formation is by far the most important physical group in the Silurian. 1883J. E. Marr Classification of Cambrian & Silurian Rocks 42 No higher Salopian beds, and no Downtonian beds occur in North Wales, partly perhaps owing to subsequent denudation. 1929O. T. Jones in Evans & Stubblefield Handbk. Geol. Gt. Brit. iii. iv. 92 In certain areas Lapworth's term Salopian is sometimes useful, since the line of separation between Wenlock and Ludlow, represented by that between Lower and Upper Salopian, is not easy to determine. 1940Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XCV. 335 (heading) The geology of the Colwyn Bay district: a study of submarine slumping during the Salopian period. Ibid. 374 The strike of these structures..indicates that the floor of the Salopian area in the Colwyn Bay region sloped from north to south. 1971Jrnl. Geol. Soc. CXXVII. 104 Lapworth's..term Salopian was eventually extended upwards by O. T. Jones..to include the whole of the Ludlow as well as the Wenlock. It is thus still employed from time to time... It finds no place in our classification.
B. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Shropshire.
1700Congreve Way of World iv. ii, Ay, ay, come, will you March my Salopian? 1886T. L. Kington-Oliphant New English I. i. 6 William de Shoreham..uses e like the Salopians.
b. A pupil of Shrewsbury School.
1866Blackw. Mag. Apr. 432/2 He has left us specimens of Latin verses of which even modern Salopians might be proud. 1898Public School Mag. Dec. 487/2 ‘Swilling’, a substitute for baths, is still an institution, of which every Salopian is proud. 1932Pendlebury & West Shrewsbury School xi. 82 Nearly 2,000 Salopians saw active service... A sum of money was set aside to assist in the education of the sons of Old Salopians who had been killed. 1964P. Cowburn Salopian Anthol. p. vi, This book..is to enable Salopians..to know what has been written about this particular school. |