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Sèvres Ware

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Porcelain of fine quality, made at the French government works at Sèvres. Chiefly of a delicate kind, for ornament rather than use.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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