2. Noun. Pottery made in the town of Balleek. ¹
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Definition of Belleek
1. a very thin translucent porcelain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belleek
Literary usage of Belleek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"belleek VASE. OTT & BREWER COMPANY. The ware now manufactured by the Ott & Brewer
Company at the Etruria Pottery is made entirely from American materials, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"northern, or lower, between belleek and Enniskillen, is the larger, being upwards
of 20 miles in length, and 7 3 in its greatest breadth; the southern, ..."
3. Derry and Enniskillen in the Year 1689: The Story of Some Famous Battle by Thomas Witherow (1885)
"BREAK OF belleek.—Wednesday, 8t/t May. Lloyd and his men were only two days at
home, when a message came from Captain Folliot, who commanded the Protestant ..."
4. Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of by Charles O'Kelly, Irish Archaeological Society, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1850 (1850)
"... or lower, between belleek and Enniskillen, is the larger, being upwards of 20
miles in length, and 7^ in its greatest breadth ; the southern, or upper, ..."
5. Catalogue of Specimens: Illustrative of the Composition and Manufacture of by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Henry Thomas De La Beche, Trenham Recks (1871)
"In consequence of the exhibition of this service, attention was called to the
existence at belleek of felspar, as well adapted to the purposes of the potter ..."
6. Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its by John Christian Curwen (1818)
"belleek, Sept. 4, 1813. JL HE soil and its cultivation undergo a great change
for the worse on quitting Sligo. Indeed the whole of the country we have ..."
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