subs. (trade).—See quot.
1884. Pall Mall Gazette, 4 Dec. LONG-ELIZAS (the trade term for certain blue and white vases ornamented with figures of tall thin china-women) is a name derived undoubtedly from the German or Dutch. Our sailors and traders called certain Chinese vases from the figures which distinguished them, lange Lischen (= tall Lizzies) and the English sailors and traders promptly translated this into LONG ELIZAS.
