单词 | satsuma |
释义 | satsuman. I. Compounds. 1. As a modifier. Usually with capital initial. Designating pottery, esp. cream-coloured ware with a decorative overglaze, produced in the Satsuma Province of Japan from about the 16th or 17th cent., as Satsuma bowl, Satsuma ware, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > Japanese pottery satsuma1866 raku1875 shippo1875 Seto1881 Yayoi1960 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > Japanese satsuma1866 Nabeshima1880 Yayoi1906 Jomon pottery1946 1866 Times 22 Feb. 16/3 Porcelain, including some fine specimens of egg shell and Satsuma ware. 1875 G. A. Audsley & J. L. Bowes Keramic Art Japan II. Pl. xi (caption) Three vases of middle period Satsuma faïence..good representatives of a style of decoration but seldom met with in Satsuma ware. 1908 Summary 25 Apr. 8/2 Tea to be sipped from squat Satsuma saucers. 1920 Daily Mail 1 Sept. 9/4 Not everyone may be the happy possessor of a Satsuma bowl, with its wonderful golden effect. 1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 296/2 The imitations of Satsuma porcelain, and the screens painted with willowy geishas and wilting flowers, which cluttered many a late Victorian drawing-room. 2006 Amer. Q. 58 400 Dwarf oak trees growing in satsuma pots. 2. As a modifier. Designating a citrus fruit or tree of the variety named satsuma (see sense 4), esp. in satsuma orange. ΚΠ 1887 Lebanon (Indiana) Pioneer 27 Oct. An acre of ground set out with sweet satsuma oranges. 1917 M. Cram Old Seaport Towns of South x. 263 Even the hardy Satsuma trees must have shivered in the icy wind. 1979 Econ. Bot. 33 237 Unlike satsuma mandarins,..blueberries required no spraying for scale and other insect pests. 2015 P. Beatty Sellout xii. 172 Nothing restored one's dignity like a sweet juicy satsuma orange. II. Simple uses. 3. Usually with capital initial. Short for Satsuma ware at sense 1. ΚΠ 1880 T. W. Cutler Gram. Japanese Ornament 16 Modern Satsuma is largely decorated at Tokio and elsewhere. 1909 M. Diver Candles in Wind ix. 86 Roses..filling every available bowl, even the sacred Satzuma. 1974 G. Savage & H. Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 255 True Satsuma is comparatively rare outside Japan. 2015 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 23 May 16 A number of factories continue to produce Satsuma for today's tourists, some of the unwary falling foul of the tricksters and conmen. 4. A variety of citrus fruit originally cultivated in Japan, closely related to the tangerine and mandarin and having thin, easily peeled orange skin; any of a group of cultivated varieties of the tree Citrus reticulata producing such fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > citrus fruit > [noun] > orange > types of orange Seville orange1593 bigarade1658 Tangerine orange1710 mikan1727 mandarin1771 naartjie1790 blood orange1806 blood-red orange1826 Tangerine1842 navel orange1856 Florida orange1861 Bengal quince1866 noble orange1866 blood1867 satsuma1881 citrange1903 tangelo1904 sour orange1920 clementine1926 ortanique1936 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit > orange > types of orange Seville orange1593 kumquat1699 Tangerine orange1710 mikan1727 mandarin1771 naartjie1790 blood orange1806 St. Michael'sc1830 Tangerine1842 navel orange1856 Florida orange1861 Bengal quince1866 noble orange1866 blood1867 Jaffa1881 satsuma1881 navel1882 citrange1903 tangelo1904 Valencia1915 sour orange1920 clementine1926 minneola1931 ortanique1936 1881 G. W. Davis Treat. Culture Orange 25 Satsuma.—A native of the island of Kiusiu, Japan, and named after one of the chief cities of that island by request of Mrs. General Van Valkenburg. The trees of this variety and species were introduced into Florida by Dr. George R. Hall in 1875, and also by Mrs. Van Valkenburg in 1878. 1967 Guardian 3 Feb. 8/5 Oranges..thin-skinned, pipless Satsumas; bright, pungent little Clementines, red-flecked Sanguinas and many others. 2017 M. J. M. Christenhusz et al. Plants of World 378/1 Satsumas are hardy, possibly among the hardiest of edible citrus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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