Tunbridge ware

American  

[tuhn-brij] / ˈtʌnˌbrɪdʒ /

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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Etymology

Origin of Tunbridge ware

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

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

From Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

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.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace