Antwerpn.

Brit.

/ˈantwəːp/, U.S.

/ˈænˌtwərp/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Antwerp.

Etymology: < Antwerp (Dutch Antwerpen, French Anvers), the name of a city (and modern province) in the north of Belgium.With sense 3 compare earlier Brussels lace n. at Brussels n. Compounds and Flanders lace n. at Flanders n. 2e(a). With senses 4 and 7 compare French pigeon d'Anvers (1823 or earlier).

I. Compounds.

a. Antwerp brown n. now chiefly historical a brown pigment made from asphalt suspended in a drying oil; the colour of this.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

litmusc1503

verditer1505

florey1527

bice1548

smalt1558

smalts1591

smalt1598

ultramarine1598

litmus blue1612

verditer1665

ultramarine blue (or colour)1686

blue sublimate1700

Prussian blue1724

terre bleue1728

starch blue1742

king's blue1778

verditel1778

Antwerp brown1787

Berlin blue1794

lacmus1794

Antwerp blue1795

French blue1802

lapis1811

Waterloo blue1815

Waterloo1823

cobalt1835

Thénard's blue1837

iron blue1839

turnsole1839

permanent blue1863

opal blue1880

Haarlem blue1885

cyanine blue1886

cerulean blue1889

Victoria blue1890

Milori blue1899

Prussian1911

Windsor blue1912

gentianine1927

Monastral1936

Alcian Blue1947

1787 W. Williams Ess. Mech. Oil Colours 43 Antwerp brown. This brown, I believe, is not to be had in the shops at present.

?1797 C. Taylor Compend. Colors 125 A better color (in the opinion of some artists) and more certain, may be made from Antwerp brown and patent yellow.

1835 G. Field Chromatogr. xviii. 162 Antwerp Brown is a preparation of asphaltum ground in strong drying oil.

1887 Art Amateur 17 99/2 It is well for students to know that the pigment called ‘Antwerp brown’ is the same as asphaltum or bitumen.

1971 Vogue 15 Oct. 41 (advt.) Pullover..in Antwerp Brown, French Navy and Mulberry.

1995 B. Heller & L. P. Stodulski in M. W. Ainsworth Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges iii. 136/2 The pigments..are in keeping with a fifteenth-century Flemish palette... The marbleized paint layer on the reverse consists of copper resinate, lead white, lead-tin yellow, Antwerp brown, and a copper-containing pigment, possibly azurite or verdigris.

b. Antwerp blue n. a light blue pigment, identified by some early authors as containing copper, but in later use typically a weakened form of Prussian blue (cf. mineral blue n. at mineral adj. Compounds 2); the colour of this.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific

azurec1374

lapis lazulia1425

litmusc1503

verditer1505

florey1527

bice1548

smalt1558

smalts1591

smalt1598

ultramarine1598

litmus blue1612

verditer1665

ultramarine blue (or colour)1686

blue sublimate1700

Prussian blue1724

terre bleue1728

starch blue1742

king's blue1778

verditel1778

Antwerp brown1787

Berlin blue1794

lacmus1794

Antwerp blue1795

French blue1802

lapis1811

Waterloo blue1815

Waterloo1823

cobalt1835

Thénard's blue1837

iron blue1839

turnsole1839

permanent blue1863

opal blue1880

Haarlem blue1885

cyanine blue1886

cerulean blue1889

Victoria blue1890

Milori blue1899

Prussian1911

Windsor blue1912

gentianine1927

Monastral1936

Alcian Blue1947

1795 Sporting Mag. Apr. 34/2 Ornaments of festoons and oak leaves heightened with gold, on a rich Antwerp blue.

1807 Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 25 9/1 To the person who shall invent..the best blue pigment from iron, superior to Antwerp or Prussian blue in colour and durabiity..; the gold medal, or thirty guineas.

1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 407 Slight differences in the manufacture [of Prussian Blue] cause considerable variation in tint and colour, which leads to the material being known by different names—such as ‘Antwerp’, ‘Berlin’, ‘Haerlem’, ‘Chinese’ Blue.

1940 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (1951) ii. 41 Antwerp blue, a pale variety of Prussian blue made by reducing pure Prussian blue with 75% of an inert pigment, usually alumina hydrate.

2005 J. Sheffer Paint Luxurious Textures in Watercolor 60/1 A mixture of Antwerp Blue, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin Crimson and Hooker's Green will create a versatile gray.

†c. Antwerp red n. Obsolete rare a red-brown pigment, a variety of red ochre.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > other red pigments

rosetc1450

crimson?a1475

patise1589

sandyx1601

lake1616

lac1682

red lac1682

light red1692

carmine1712

rose pink1732

Venetian red1753

fire-red1798

pink saucer1804

chica1818

Florentine lake1822

French red1844

Antwerp red1851

Paris lake1866

carajura1874

cadmium red1886

Chinese vermilion1886

Chinese red1892

terra rosa1897

vermilionette1897

Derby red1904

Monastral1936

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. (new ed.) II. 869/1 Antwerp red, from Ganjam.

1885 J. S. Taylor Field's Chromatogr. Modernized 187 Antwerp Red, a variety of Red Ochre.

2. attributive. Designating any of several varieties of cultivated raspberry. Cf. sense 6.

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1790 J. Abercrombie Garden Vade Mecum 214 The Antwerp raspberry is a new sort lately introduced from Germany.

1798 T. Jefferson Let. 22 Mar. in Papers (2003) XXX. 193 Antwerp raspberry... It has the reputation of being among the finest fruits in the world.

1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova-Scotia II. 216 The berry being nearly of the size and appearance of the yellow Antwerp raspberry,..is termed by the inhabitants, ‘bake-apple’.

1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 45 The bush..has..a pinkish-yellow berry an inch in length, which resembles our Antwerp raspberry.

1932 Sci. Monthly Sept. 272/1 The loganberry..is a hybrid between the Antwerp red raspberry and the ordinary blackberry.

2002 M. Mahan First Hundred Years 16 Marlborough [sc. New York State] is noted as the birthplace of the Antwerp raspberry.

3. Antwerp lace n. Lacemaking a coarse-textured bobbin lace originally made in Antwerp, outlined with a cordonnet and characterized esp. by a stylized flowerpot motif (cf. pot lace n. at pot n.¹ Compounds 2); (also) a machine-made lace designed to imitate this.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of

masclea1425

pomet1582

loop-lace1632

colbertinea1685

coxcomb1693

trolly-lolly1693

trolly1699

piece lace1702

mignonette1751

web lace1795

guard-lace1804

Antwerp lace1811

warp-lace1812

cardinal lace1842

guipure1843

run lace1843

Shetland lace1848

lacis1865

pot lace1865

reticella1865

tape guipure1865

quadrille1884

reticello1895

tambour-lace1899

rosaline1900

ring net1901

tracing-lace1901

shadow lace1914

1811 Coll. Play-bills Kilkenny Theatre 159 Nay, had our gun boats with their zeal kept pace, You'ld now wear Lillo lappets—Antwerp lace.

1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace vii. 116 Antwerp lace would have disappeared from the scene had it not been for the attachment evinced by the old people for one pattern,..generally known by the name of ‘pot lace’.

1908 M. M. L. Pollen Seven Cents. Lace Pl. CVII A scarf of..Antwerp lace... The lace is made on the pillow in strips which are almost imperceptibly joined together.

2002 J. Reese Bk. Shadows xix. 29 She'd removed that fichu of Antwerp lace.

4. attributive. Designating a variety of homing or carrier pigeon originally bred in Antwerp. Now chiefly historical.

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1823 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley Percy Anecd. IX. 64 At the annual competition of the Antwerp pigeon fanciers in 1819, one of the thirty-two pigeons belonging to that city, who had been conveyed to London, and there let loose, made the transit back..in six hours!]

1836 Count E. de Melfort Impressions of Eng. I. i. 9 Seeming to cleave the air like an Antwerp pigeon.

1851 E. S. Dixon Dovecote & Aviary iv. 139 The Antwerp Carrier is still more slim in its proportions, with great length of wing.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xxi. 245 Other races..have been largely modified by methodical selection and by crossing, as the English race-horse,..Antwerp carrier-pigeons, etc.

1913 J. H. Robinson Our Domest. Birds xvii. 246 Gradually the term ‘homer’ was substituted for ‘carrier’, and the pigeons now called Homers, or Homing Pigeons, are the Antwerp Homing Pigeons.

1940 Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois) 13 Nov. 2/2 The House has already passed a bill imposing a fine of $500 for shooting or capturing a homing or Antwerp pigeon.

1984 Field & Stream Feb. 15 Conversations would be filled with facts and fancies over the relative merits of Skimmers versus Antwerp pigeons.

5. Needlework. attributive. Designating an embroidery stitch used for decorating and finishing edges and hems, consisting of a series of loose buttonhole stitches with a knot caught in each loop. Also called knot stitch.

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1870 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 1 May 306/1 This rosette..is worked on very fine linen, in raised button-hole stitch..and Antwerp edging.

1949 M. Karasz Adventures in Stitches iv. 58 The Antwerp Edge makes a decorative border.

1986 J. Eaton Compl. Stitch Encycl. (1994) 29/3 Laced Antwerp edging stitch..consists of two rows of Antwerp edging stitch running parallel to each other on the surface of the fabric.

2006 M. Stanley Simply Fabulous Knitting 137/2 There are many ways of finishing an edge with embroidery. Two good edging stitches are Antwerp stitch..and Armenian stitch.

II. Simple uses.

6. An Antwerp raspberry (see sense 2). Usually with distinguishing word.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > raspberry > types of

black raspberry1759

Antwerp?a1797

black cap1831

nessberry1925

tayberry1977

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > raspberry > types of

thimble-berry1789

Antwerp?a1797

black cap1831

nessberry1925

?a1797 Catal. Forest Trees (J. Mackie & Son) 90/2 (list) Raspberries... Red Antwerp..Twice-Bearing..Yellow Antwerp.

1797 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 15) 634/2 Raspberry, red fruit. White fruit,..Smooth-stalked, Antwerp, or German, very large.

1842 Mag. Hort. Oct. 368 Yellow Antwerp.—Syn. white Antwerp. Similar to the last, except in the color of the berries.

1878 J. Scott Scott's Orchardist (ed. 2) 530 Sweet Yellow Antwerp. Fruit larger and more orange than the Yellow Antwerp.

1919 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 1001. 38 Raspberries.—Cuthbert (red), Antwerp (red), Golden Queen (yellow).

1978 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 21 545/2 Infection was common in the cultivars ‘Lloyd George’, ‘Marcy’, ‘Red Antwerp’, and ‘Taylor’.

2013 C. Cumo Encycl. Cultivated Plants 871 The first cultivar to gain renown was Red Antwerp, discovered about 1800.

7. An Antwerp pigeon (see sense 4). Now chiefly historical.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > carrier

carrier1641

carrier pigeon1644

carrier bird1728

Antwerp1839

scandaroon1860

postman pigeon1901

1839 New Sporting Mag. June 378 The Antwerps are a later introduction into our country.

a1865 H. W. Wheelwright in W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons (1868) ix. 93 I fancy that no education or training would ever enable the best Antwerp that was ever bred to accomplish the journey which the stork or even the little swallow makes every spring and autumn.

1939 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon vii. 95 Today the Antwerp, a bird of bold, upright bearing, is no longer used for flying, but solely for exhibition.

2010 J. Lambie Story of Your Life ii. 9 William Clement shrewdly obtained a few of the coveted ‘Antwerps’ and bred a colony of them on the roof of the Bell's Life building in the Strand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	antwerp
释义	Antwerpn. Brit. /ˈantwəːp/, U.S. /ˈænˌtwərp/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Antwerp. Etymology: < Antwerp (Dutch Antwerpen, French Anvers), the name of a city (and modern province) in the north of Belgium.With sense 3 compare earlier Brussels lace n. at Brussels n. Compounds and Flanders lace n. at Flanders n. 2e(a). With senses 4 and 7 compare French pigeon d'Anvers (1823 or earlier). I. Compounds. 1. a. Antwerp brown n. now chiefly historical a brown pigment made from asphalt suspended in a drying oil; the colour of this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 litmusc1503 verditer1505 florey1527 bice1548 smalt1558 smalts1591 smalt1598 ultramarine1598 litmus blue1612 verditer1665 ultramarine blue (or colour)1686 blue sublimate1700 Prussian blue1724 terre bleue1728 starch blue1742 king's blue1778 verditel1778 Antwerp brown1787 Berlin blue1794 lacmus1794 Antwerp blue1795 French blue1802 lapis1811 Waterloo blue1815 Waterloo1823 cobalt1835 Thénard's blue1837 iron blue1839 turnsole1839 permanent blue1863 opal blue1880 Haarlem blue1885 cyanine blue1886 cerulean blue1889 Victoria blue1890 Milori blue1899 Prussian1911 Windsor blue1912 gentianine1927 Monastral1936 Alcian Blue1947 1787 W. Williams Ess. Mech. Oil Colours 43 Antwerp brown. This brown, I believe, is not to be had in the shops at present. ?1797 C. Taylor Compend. Colors 125 A better color (in the opinion of some artists) and more certain, may be made from Antwerp brown and patent yellow. 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. xviii. 162 Antwerp Brown is a preparation of asphaltum ground in strong drying oil. 1887 Art Amateur 17 99/2 It is well for students to know that the pigment called ‘Antwerp brown’ is the same as asphaltum or bitumen. 1971 Vogue 15 Oct. 41 (advt.) Pullover..in Antwerp Brown, French Navy and Mulberry. 1995 B. Heller & L. P. Stodulski in M. W. Ainsworth Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges iii. 136/2 The pigments..are in keeping with a fifteenth-century Flemish palette... The marbleized paint layer on the reverse consists of copper resinate, lead white, lead-tin yellow, Antwerp brown, and a copper-containing pigment, possibly azurite or verdigris. b. Antwerp blue n. a light blue pigment, identified by some early authors as containing copper, but in later use typically a weakened form of Prussian blue (cf. mineral blue n. at mineral adj. Compounds 2); the colour of this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > blue pigment > specific azurec1374 lapis lazulia1425 litmusc1503 verditer1505 florey1527 bice1548 smalt1558 smalts1591 smalt1598 ultramarine1598 litmus blue1612 verditer1665 ultramarine blue (or colour)1686 blue sublimate1700 Prussian blue1724 terre bleue1728 starch blue1742 king's blue1778 verditel1778 Antwerp brown1787 Berlin blue1794 lacmus1794 Antwerp blue1795 French blue1802 lapis1811 Waterloo blue1815 Waterloo1823 cobalt1835 Thénard's blue1837 iron blue1839 turnsole1839 permanent blue1863 opal blue1880 Haarlem blue1885 cyanine blue1886 cerulean blue1889 Victoria blue1890 Milori blue1899 Prussian1911 Windsor blue1912 gentianine1927 Monastral1936 Alcian Blue1947 1795 Sporting Mag. Apr. 34/2 Ornaments of festoons and oak leaves heightened with gold, on a rich Antwerp blue. 1807 Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 25 9/1 To the person who shall invent..the best blue pigment from iron, superior to Antwerp or Prussian blue in colour and durabiity..; the gold medal, or thirty guineas. 1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 407 Slight differences in the manufacture [of Prussian Blue] cause considerable variation in tint and colour, which leads to the material being known by different names—such as ‘Antwerp’, ‘Berlin’, ‘Haerlem’, ‘Chinese’ Blue. 1940 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (1951) ii. 41 Antwerp blue, a pale variety of Prussian blue made by reducing pure Prussian blue with 75% of an inert pigment, usually alumina hydrate. 2005 J. Sheffer Paint Luxurious Textures in Watercolor 60/1 A mixture of Antwerp Blue, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin Crimson and Hooker's Green will create a versatile gray. †c. Antwerp red n. Obsolete rare a red-brown pigment, a variety of red ochre. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > other red pigments rosetc1450 crimson?a1475 patise1589 sandyx1601 lake1616 lac1682 red lac1682 light red1692 carmine1712 rose pink1732 Venetian red1753 fire-red1798 pink saucer1804 chica1818 Florentine lake1822 French red1844 Antwerp red1851 Paris lake1866 carajura1874 cadmium red1886 Chinese vermilion1886 Chinese red1892 terra rosa1897 vermilionette1897 Derby red1904 Monastral1936 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. (new ed.) II. 869/1 Antwerp red, from Ganjam. 1885 J. S. Taylor Field's Chromatogr. Modernized 187 Antwerp Red, a variety of Red Ochre. 2. attributive. Designating any of several varieties of cultivated raspberry. Cf. sense 6. ΚΠ 1790 J. Abercrombie Garden Vade Mecum 214 The Antwerp raspberry is a new sort lately introduced from Germany. 1798 T. Jefferson Let. 22 Mar. in Papers (2003) XXX. 193 Antwerp raspberry... It has the reputation of being among the finest fruits in the world. 1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova-Scotia II. 216 The berry being nearly of the size and appearance of the yellow Antwerp raspberry,..is termed by the inhabitants, ‘bake-apple’. 1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 45 The bush..has..a pinkish-yellow berry an inch in length, which resembles our Antwerp raspberry. 1932 Sci. Monthly Sept. 272/1 The loganberry..is a hybrid between the Antwerp red raspberry and the ordinary blackberry. 2002 M. Mahan First Hundred Years 16 Marlborough [sc. New York State] is noted as the birthplace of the Antwerp raspberry. 3. Antwerp lace n. Lacemaking a coarse-textured bobbin lace originally made in Antwerp, outlined with a cordonnet and characterized esp. by a stylized flowerpot motif (cf. pot lace n. at pot n.¹ Compounds 2); (also) a machine-made lace designed to imitate this. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of masclea1425 pomet1582 loop-lace1632 colbertinea1685 coxcomb1693 trolly-lolly1693 trolly1699 piece lace1702 mignonette1751 web lace1795 guard-lace1804 Antwerp lace1811 warp-lace1812 cardinal lace1842 guipure1843 run lace1843 Shetland lace1848 lacis1865 pot lace1865 reticella1865 tape guipure1865 quadrille1884 reticello1895 tambour-lace1899 rosaline1900 ring net1901 tracing-lace1901 shadow lace1914 1811 Coll. Play-bills Kilkenny Theatre 159 Nay, had our gun boats with their zeal kept pace, You'ld now wear Lillo lappets—Antwerp lace. 1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace vii. 116 Antwerp lace would have disappeared from the scene had it not been for the attachment evinced by the old people for one pattern,..generally known by the name of ‘pot lace’. 1908 M. M. L. Pollen Seven Cents. Lace Pl. CVII A scarf of..Antwerp lace... The lace is made on the pillow in strips which are almost imperceptibly joined together. 2002 J. Reese Bk. Shadows xix. 29 She'd removed that fichu of Antwerp lace. 4. attributive. Designating a variety of homing or carrier pigeon originally bred in Antwerp. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1823 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley Percy Anecd. IX. 64 At the annual competition of the Antwerp pigeon fanciers in 1819, one of the thirty-two pigeons belonging to that city, who had been conveyed to London, and there let loose, made the transit back..in six hours!] 1836 Count E. de Melfort Impressions of Eng. I. i. 9 Seeming to cleave the air like an Antwerp pigeon. 1851 E. S. Dixon Dovecote & Aviary iv. 139 The Antwerp Carrier is still more slim in its proportions, with great length of wing. 1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xxi. 245 Other races..have been largely modified by methodical selection and by crossing, as the English race-horse,..Antwerp carrier-pigeons, etc. 1913 J. H. Robinson Our Domest. Birds xvii. 246 Gradually the term ‘homer’ was substituted for ‘carrier’, and the pigeons now called Homers, or Homing Pigeons, are the Antwerp Homing Pigeons. 1940 Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois) 13 Nov. 2/2 The House has already passed a bill imposing a fine of $500 for shooting or capturing a homing or Antwerp pigeon. 1984 Field & Stream Feb. 15 Conversations would be filled with facts and fancies over the relative merits of Skimmers versus Antwerp pigeons. 5. Needlework. attributive. Designating an embroidery stitch used for decorating and finishing edges and hems, consisting of a series of loose buttonhole stitches with a knot caught in each loop. Also called knot stitch. ΚΠ 1870 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 1 May 306/1 This rosette..is worked on very fine linen, in raised button-hole stitch..and Antwerp edging. 1949 M. Karasz Adventures in Stitches iv. 58 The Antwerp Edge makes a decorative border. 1986 J. Eaton Compl. Stitch Encycl. (1994) 29/3 Laced Antwerp edging stitch..consists of two rows of Antwerp edging stitch running parallel to each other on the surface of the fabric. 2006 M. Stanley Simply Fabulous Knitting 137/2 There are many ways of finishing an edge with embroidery. Two good edging stitches are Antwerp stitch..and Armenian stitch. II. Simple uses. 6. An Antwerp raspberry (see sense 2). Usually with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > raspberry > types of black raspberry1759 Antwerp?a1797 black cap1831 nessberry1925 tayberry1977 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > raspberry > types of thimble-berry1789 Antwerp?a1797 black cap1831 nessberry1925 ?a1797 Catal. Forest Trees (J. Mackie & Son) 90/2 (list) Raspberries... Red Antwerp..Twice-Bearing..Yellow Antwerp. 1797 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 15) 634/2 Raspberry, red fruit. White fruit,..Smooth-stalked, Antwerp, or German, very large. 1842 Mag. Hort. Oct. 368 Yellow Antwerp.—Syn. white Antwerp. Similar to the last, except in the color of the berries. 1878 J. Scott Scott's Orchardist (ed. 2) 530 Sweet Yellow Antwerp. Fruit larger and more orange than the Yellow Antwerp. 1919 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 1001. 38 Raspberries.—Cuthbert (red), Antwerp (red), Golden Queen (yellow). 1978 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 21 545/2 Infection was common in the cultivars ‘Lloyd George’, ‘Marcy’, ‘Red Antwerp’, and ‘Taylor’. 2013 C. Cumo Encycl. Cultivated Plants 871 The first cultivar to gain renown was Red Antwerp, discovered about 1800. 7. An Antwerp pigeon (see sense 4). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > carrier carrier1641 carrier pigeon1644 carrier bird1728 Antwerp1839 scandaroon1860 postman pigeon1901 1839 New Sporting Mag. June 378 The Antwerps are a later introduction into our country. a1865 H. W. Wheelwright in W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons (1868) ix. 93 I fancy that no education or training would ever enable the best Antwerp that was ever bred to accomplish the journey which the stork or even the little swallow makes every spring and autumn. 1939 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon vii. 95 Today the Antwerp, a bird of bold, upright bearing, is no longer used for flying, but solely for exhibition. 2010 J. Lambie Story of Your Life ii. 9 William Clement shrewdly obtained a few of the coveted ‘Antwerps’ and bred a colony of them on the roof of the Bell's Life building in the Strand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1787
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