willow-pattern love

Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word willow-pattern.

Examples

  • Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow-pattern.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Some of them (a strange thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and tables bright with scrubbing or pipe-clay, and the very kettle polished like silver.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • The tea - pot, the old stocking-foot, the linen rag, the willow-pattern tureen, will yield up their barren deposit in many a house: suffer your daughters, at least, to put their money to the exchangers, that they may be enabled at the Master's coming to pay

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • The willow-pattern plate was daubed with gory streaks.

    The Years 2004

  • It glinted on the blue slate slabs of the floor, on the willow-pattern china set out on the enormous black dresser; on the shelf of beaming Toby jugs above the stove.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • It glinted on the blue slate slabs of the floor, on the willow-pattern china set out on the enormous black dresser; on the shelf of beaming Toby jugs above the stove.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • Flemish po -- portrait painting, with its very high finish and intense concentration of craft, and it is said his mother's willow-pattern china.

    American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America 1997

  • “This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • “This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • “This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.