Delft
A city in South Holland, Netherlands known for its production of blue and white pottery.
Proper noun
- A city in South Holland, Netherlands known for its production of blue and white pottery.
- A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
Origin
Borrowed from Dutch Delft. Piecewise doublet of delved.
Derived
Noun
- Blue and white earthenware produced in Delft, Netherlands.
- Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft, and here and there a bas-relief. - 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 39”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers...
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a...