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▪ I. Davenport2
Used to designate china, earthenware, etc., made by a family of this name at Longport, Staffordshire, between 1793 and 1882.
[1829S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries 2 The largest Potteries known, being Wedgewood's, Etruria;..Davenport's, Longport; Minton's, Stoke.] 1863W. Chaffers Marks Pott. & Porc. 124 Davenport Stone China. Staffordshire. Longport. 1872Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 156 We got nothing but a ‘Davenport’ plate. 1875L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 106 A bowl..marked with an anchor, this we thought at first was Chelsea, but know since that it is Davenport. 1954G. Savage Porcelain ii. viii. 270 Much nineteenth-century Davenport porcelain survives. Ibid., Two Davenport plaques painted in the manner of Birkett Foster. 1965A. Christie At Bertram's Hotel i. 10 The china, if not actually Rockingham and Davenport, looked like it.
▪ II. Davenport3 N. Amer.
Also davenport.
[Orig. uncertain: perh. from the maker's name.]
A type of large, upholstered couch or sofa which may be convertible into a bed. Freq. attrib. Cf. Chesterfield 2.
1897Washington Post 31 Oct. 2/5 (Advt.), Davenport sofa, green color. 1898Amer. Cabinet Maker & Upholsterer 1 Jan. 13/1 Dealers are receiving neatly printed cards reminding them that the entire new line of couches,..Davenports, Turkish sofas and oriental divans of the Jamestown Lounge Co., will be on exhibition..during January. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Apr. 4/4 (Advt.), Davenport sofas, upholstered in Spanish leather, solid quarter cut oak, Early English finish or fumed oak $55. 1957J. Agee Death in Family ii. 242 They slept on the brand-new davenport in the sitting room. 1981N.Y. Times Mag. 21 June 10/2 There used to be a split on davenport and sofa; now the split is between sofa and couch. |