Sèvres

From French Sèvres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvɹə/

Sèvres

1. A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.
2. (often attributive) A type of expensive porcelain traditionally made there.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in softly with a cup of tea, and a pile of letters, on a small tray of old Sevres china, and drew back the olive-satin curtains, with their shimmering blue lining, that hung in front of the three tall windows.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 142:

     There was a bartop radio in the corner and a Sèvres china tea set on a copper tray beside a samovar.

• 'verses, Esvres, serves, severs, verses

• IPA^(key): /sɛvʁ/

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Sèvres ?

1. Sèvres (a town in France)