Orvieton.
/ɔːˈvjɛtəʊ/, U.S. /ɔrˈvjɛdoʊ/ 1. A usually dry white wine made near the city of Orvieto. Also Orvieto wine.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > Italian wines > [noun]
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1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 363 Heer [sc. in Rome] is great variety of Wines..as Greco, Lagrime of Naples..Orvietano.
1841 tr. ‘Valery’ Italy & its Comforts xv. 175 The excellent white wine of Orvieto costs 12 [baiocchi].]
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 159 Such wine in flasks, as the Orvieto.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxv. 344 We had some Orvieto wine for dinner.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxv. 275 The finest Orvieto..is vulgar in comparison.
1926 P. M. Shand Bk. Wine viii. 225 Umbria is chiefly noted for its white wines, of which the most famous name is Orvieto.
1940 M. Healy Stay me with Flagons 70 Orvieto, now sweet, now dry, offers varied charms.
1974 N. Marsh Black as he's Painted ii. 39 Bottles of dry Orvieto..and other Italian wines.
2001 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. l6 Tasting Orvieto wine on the shores of Lake Bolsena, and learning about Umbrian history and culture from local guides.
2. A type of maiolica ware manufactured at Orvieto. Usually attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of majolica
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Orvieto1925
1925 B. Rackham tr. E. Hannover Pottery & Porcelain I. iii. ii. 96 It requires a practised eye to distinguish between a genuine and a spurious Orvieto jug.
1959 G. Savage Antique Collector's Handbk. 70 The earliest maiolica was a series of wares painted in green and manganese purple at Orvieto and elsewhere, and most are loosely called ‘Orvieto ware’.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 338/2 Orvieto, a distinctive class of early Italian maiolica painted in coppergreen and manganese-purple with decorations and shapes of a distinctly ‘Gothic’ type.
1973 Times 3 Nov. 2/2 A Parke Bernet expert called in to look over what was there found the Medici bowl in a cupboard under a broken Orvieto dish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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