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▪ I. seau Ceramics.|səʊ|
Also erron. † sceau. Pl. seaux.
[Fr., lit. ‘bucket’.]
A vessel in the shape of a pail or bucket used for cooling wine, etc. (freq. forming part of dinner services of the eighteenth century).
1784H. Walpole Descr. Strawberry-Hill 82 A sceau for liquors, of Seve. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. iii. 710/1 Porcelain Inkstands, Seaux, Card Trays. 1869C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 37 Some Bleu du Roy vases, small,..a pair of sceaux of the same colour. Ibid. 53 Picked up..a marked St. Claud sceau at Bencoux's. 1875E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. Gloss. 409 Seaux formed a part of all costly dinners and dessert services, particularly if intended for foreign countries... A choice pair of seaux in sea-green jasper is in the Marjoribanks Collection. 1974Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 259 Seau à bouteille,..a bucket-shaped receptacle for holding ice to chill a single bottle of wine.
▪ II. seau, seaul
see sew, pottage; seal n.2 |