Definition of "willow-pattern" [willow-pattern]

• Chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow-pattern."
• "Some of them (a strange thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and tables bright with scrubbing or pipe-clay, and the very kettle polished like silver."
• "The willow-pattern plate was daubed with gory streaks."