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Sevres

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Sè·vres  (svr)
n.
A fine French porcelain, often elaborately decorated.

[After Sèvres, a city of north-central France.]

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Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him.
And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.
Slowly he threaded his way amongst the elegant Louis Quinze furniture, examining as though for the first time the beautiful old tapestry, the Sevres china, the Chippendale table, which was priceless, the exquisite portraits painted by Greuze, and the mysterious green twilights and grey dawns of Corot.
 
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