delft

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɛɫft]

After the Dutch city of Delft.

delft (uncountable)

1. A style of blue and white earthenware.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 39

     Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft, and here and there a bas-relief.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

delft (plural delfts)

1. A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
   • Ray

     The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could […] keep them dry.

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delft

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of delven
2. (archaic) plural imperative of delven