Old English pattern

noun

1. a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Old English pattern¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Enlisted soldiers use silverware from the utilitarian Annapolis line; officers get more expensive Sheffield sets, with an ornate Old English pattern.

From New York Times

The house he afterward built and lived in at Newport, of the quaint old English pattern, was standing within the recollection of many older inhabitants.

From Project Gutenberg

Quiet, orderly series of murders in the Old English pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are of various shapes, the professional, or old English pattern, being something of the construction of a "bat-folding" net.

From Project Gutenberg

The swallows had their coat tails cut after the same old English pattern, and built their nests after the same model, and twittered under the eaves with the same ecstacy, and played the same antics in the air. 

From Project Gutenberg