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Satsuma
(ˈsætsjʊmə, now (esp. in sense 2) freq. sætˈsuːmə)
Also Satzuma.
[The name of a province in the island of Kiusiu, Japan.]
1. Used attrib. in Satsuma ware, a kind of cream-coloured Japanese pottery. Also absol.
1872W. Chaffers Keramic Gallery I. Pl. 99 Satsuma-Ware Bottle... Satsuma Bowl. 1875Audsley & Bowes Keramic Art Japan II. Pl. xi, Three vases of middle period Satsuma faïence..good representatives of a style of decoration but seldom met with in Satsuma ware. 1880T. W. Cutler Grammar Jap. Ornament 16 Modern Satsuma is largely decorated at Tokio and elsewhere. 1909M. Diver Candles in Wind ix. 86 Roses..filling every available bowl, even the sacred Satzuma. 1974Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 255 True Satsuma is comparatively rare outside Japan.
2. (Freq. with lower-case initial.) A small tangerine belonging to a variety of Citrus reticulata so called; also, the variety itself. Also attrib. as Satsuma orange.
1882E. S. Hart in Proc. 18th Session Amer. Pomological Soc. 1881 67/1 One [variety of tangerine] from Japan called Satsuma, bore a temperature of 16°. 1905Flora & Sylva III. 66/1 Satsuma, an early fruiting Mandarine. 1909Circular Bureau Plant Industry U.S. Dept. Agric. xlvi (title) The limitation of the Satsuma orange to trifoliate-orange stock. 1922[see mikan]. 1926H. H. Hume Cultivation of Citrus Fruits xxix. 477 Satsuma oranges are susceptible to the disease. 1943Webber & Batchelor Citrus Industry I. v. 551 The Satsuma was first introduced into the United States in 1876 by Dr. George R. Hall... It is characteristic of Satsuma fruits that although they mature and fill with juice..the rind frequently remains green or shows only slightly colored. 1967[see clementine]. 1980‘M. Yorke’ Scent of Fear vii. 64 She bought..some tangerines—or satsumas, as they were called nowadays. |