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Definition:Silverware. In the days when most personal property consisted either of land or tangible objects such as carriages and horses, and few people owned stocks or bonds, [it] was especially valued.Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. p354. (1993)
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"[...] Dover says he will take a good deal of the plate back again, and any of the jewellery we like. He really behaves very well."
"Are we to go without spoons and forks then?"
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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And as to plate, Lord bless you, we haven’t so much as a tea-spoon.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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The family plate was sold for old silver, and a new service procured; fashionable furniture was provided, and the whole house turned topsy turvy.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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He went down to the pantry and the others followed him. There was a small case there designed for the purpose of holding silver and plate.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.141 (1939)
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there are hundreds of pounds’ worth of plate in the plate-closet, as is well known.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth, you know. A river's its natural depth, and he's his natural depth. Look at his watch-chain. That's real enough."
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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When families left London, they sometimes left their plate in the custody of their banker.
Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. p354. (1993)
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We have done a good deal in this direction during the last few years, and there are many noble families to whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their pictures, libraries, or plate. Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
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