faience
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- noun
- /feɪˈɑːns/
- Specialized
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fayenza
- The museum displayed an exquisite collection of faience pottery from the Renaissance period.
- French faience
- blue faience
Examples
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PHOTO (COLOR): French colonial sites around Mobile have yielded, from top, Chinese porcelain, English wine bottles, and faience and coarse earthenware from France.
Academic text (2004) -
At one end of the room, 17th century faience de Rouen decorated the entire wall; its hues of deep and pale blue reflected light from the windows.
Blog text (23) -
You were already glazing your Egyptian faience pot.
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Yeah, well, maybe I was trying to protect my Egyptian faience pot from the detritus.
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The ironwork, the faience, the fountains, and gardens.
Academic text (2010) -
He repaired faience, stoneware, and old clocks.
Fiction book (1995) -
Four candles in heavy candlesticks were burning on the long table in the main room, and the table was laid with covers of silver and heavy imported faience.
Fiction book (1993) -
Photo (color): Sir Arthur Evans discovered this foot-tall faience statuette at Knossos in the early 20th century.
Academic text (2010) -
In the Mitannian Empire of northern Mesopotamia and northern Syria, two major seal styles existed: one on faience, often covered with a blue glaze, which I have called the Common style.
Academic text (1993) -
The scans also revealed a lump in her throat, possibly a goiter, and only two small ovals of stone or faience, one covering each eye, unusual because a woman rich enough to afford such an opulent coffin should have had more amulets and jewelry.
Academic text (2009)
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Etymology
Faience comes from the Italian town Faenza, and the name once meant 'in the style of Faenza' because the town made bright, glazed pottery. That's why faience now means decorated, glazed pottery.