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Tunbridge ware

[ tuhn-brij ]

noun

  1. decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tunbridge ware1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Besides Receipts relating to the lesser Technological matters and processes, such as the manufacture and use of Stencil Plates, Blacking, Crayons, Paste, Putty, Wax, Size, Alloys, Catgut, Tunbridge Ware, Picture Frame and Architectural Mouldings, Compos, Cameos, and others too numerous to mention.

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They may have kept those very books at the library still—at the well-remembered library on the Pantiles, where they sell that delightful, useful Tunbridge ware.

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I should think, from its lightness and beauty, that it might be used with great advantage in Tunbridge ware.

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Nor is the trade in Tunbridge ware, inlaid work in coloured woods, what it was.

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They MAY have kept those very books at the library still—at the well-remembered library on the Pantiles, where they sell that delightful, useful Tunbridge ware.

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