faience
Noun
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Noun
faience
- A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
- 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
- The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
- 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
- (archaeology) The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. qf Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.
- French: faïence
- German: Steingut, Fayence
- Italian: faenza
- Portuguese: faiança
- Russian: фая́нс
- Spanish: loza, fayenza
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