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delft

(n): a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration
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about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

With capital D, a city in the Netherlands that was the home port of the Dutch East India Company, and the center of the Dutch ceramics industry, which attempted to replicate Chinese porcelain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. See also delftware.

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