单词 | Copenhagen |
释义 | Copenhagen|kəʊpənˈheɪgən| The name of the capital city of Denmark, used attrib. of porcelain manufactured there since the mid-eighteenth century. Also ellipt.
[1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 875/1 Though the delicate underglaze painting on hard-fired porcelain of Copenhagen and Rörstrand owes its inception to this foreign [Japanese] influence, it proceeds on its own lines. ]1911A. Hayden (title) Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. Ibid. i. 37 The early Copenhagen porcelain of the Fournier period is soft paste. Ibid. ix. 359 To take a Copenhagen vase with its seascape and dancing spray and pack of scudding storm-clouds. 1926A. Huxley Two or Three Graces 73 Phyllis has just smashed that hideous Copenhagen rabbit Aunt Eleanor gave me. 1962H. Thurston Where is thy Sting? iv. 52 The second best china..was of heartier dimensions than the Royal Copenhagen she kept for special occasions. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xvii. 105 A girl..produced a Copenhagen teapot. |

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