Windsorn.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 133 Fruit in Pods, of the Size of our Windsor Beans.

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 300 [The Buck-bean's] leaves closely resemble those of the Windsor Bean.

1912 R. Ridgway Color Standards & Nomencl. 40/1 Windsor blue.

1938 H. Nicolson Let. 17 Apr. (1966) 336 His Windsor blue eyes were wistful.

1970 Sunday Times 22 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 69/4 Monastral Blue, an incredibly powerful synthetic pigment of fairly recent origin..is sold under..different names: Windsor Blue, Phthalocyanine Blue.

1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 26 The Furnace being made of Sturbridge or Windsor-Brick.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 535 Red bricks..which will stand the greatest heat..called Windsor bricks.

1724 in Amherst Gardening (1895) 234 My wife was carry'd in a Windsor chair like those at Versailles.

1740 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) II. 4 A tolerably large circle, with Windsor chairs round it.

1766 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 29 Nov. The Bodleian Library has most confessedly been very much improved by the Introduction of Windsor-Chairs, so admirably calculated for Ornament and Repose.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. iv. 28 There was one arm-chair in the room,—a Windsor-chair, as such used to be called.

1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 53 For Wyndissoris heraldis expensis quhen he come again for the renewyne of his conduct.

1517–18 in Archaeologia 47 310 Wyndesore Harald at Armes.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments To Rdr. Augustine Vincent, Esquire, Windsor Herald, & keeper of the Records in the Tower.

1953 Man about Town Spring 117 (caption) How to tie the ‘Windsor’ knot.

1959 T. Williams Sweet Bird of Youth iii. 111 He nods slightly, loosening the Windsor-knot of his knitted black silk tie.

1976 J. H. Spencer Surgenor Campaign i. 18 The tie was a crisp silver, the sort normally worn only with morning dress and tied in a Windsor knot.

1953 K. Amis Lucky Jim ix. 98 His Windsor-knotted silk tie.

1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 458 Hedgerley, the Place where there is dug an Earth commonly call'd Windsor Loam.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xviii. 473 Windsor loam: obtained at Hampstead, &c...is frequently used for the lining of furnaces.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva August..Pears. Windsor, Soveraign, Orange.

1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 221 Windsor... A fine old pear for orchard culture. Ripe in August. It should be gathered before it becomes yellow.

1940 J. Betjeman Old Lights for New Chancels 17 Remaining orchards ripening Windsor pears.

1969 Vogue 15 Mar. 65/2 Red Windsor, a new British cheese..basically an English cheddar, gets its pink tinge from an English wine.]

1969 Wine & Food Dec. 11/2 More ideas for cheese gifts... Windsor Red in plain jar, each 10/6.

1982 P. Rance Great Brit. Cheese Bk. i. ii. 50 These cheeses are made by breaking up Cheddar or Double Gloucester..and..in the case of Windsor Red, pouring wine over the re-milled curd.

1822 B. R. Haydon Jrnl. 16–17 Sept. in Mem. (1926) I. 321 A barber who shaved me..so praised his Windsor soap, that I..took six cakes.

1826 MS. Accounts D. Dewar, St. Andrew's To Windsor Soap, 3^d.

1837 J. Morier Abel Allnutt xxvii A..lamb..which she..kept..washed with the best brown Windsor soap.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 58 The little common horse-bean, ticks, and Windsor ticks, are the sorts generally cultivated.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 95/2 Windsor Ties... Japanese Silk Windsors... Size 4½ × 34 inches.

1912 J. London Smoke Bellew 147 He went on dressing,..tying a Windsor tie in a bow-knot at the throat of his soft cotton shirt.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 114 A bias-cut wide tie, usually black, tied in a loose bow in front of the neck—known in America as a Windsor tie.

1800 J. Alves Banks of Esk 166 Old Port pipes or casks, laid open at one side with conical tops, and seats placed at the ordinary height from the bottom,—which turn round upon perpendicular axis, denominated Windsor Tubs, from their having been first introduced there.

1781 Gentleman's Mag. 51 391/2 The birth-day of the Prince of Wales..was celebrated with extraordinary magnificence... The King, the Prince, the Duke of Cumberland, the great officers of state, and nobility, appeared in the Windsor uniform on this occasion—blue and scarlet.

1805 Ann. Reg. (Rivington's ed.), Chron. 12* The gentlemen [at a fête at Windsor Castle] were dressed in the full Windsor uniform, except those who wore the military habit of their respective regiments.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 62 The hotel..was a..red brick building, edging the blue wave of the ocean, as the collar of the Windsor uniform garnishes the coat.