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willow pattern

a design for china, copied in 18th-cent. England from a Chinese original, that pictures a river, pagodas, willow trees, etc., usually in blue on a white background

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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