faience
IPA: fɛʌns
noun
- A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
- (archaeology) Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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Examples of "faience" in Sentences
- Faience and maiolica are kinds of pottery.
- The conical dome is covered with turquoise faience.
- Their color and the faience process are Danish unique.
- The inside was of Burmantofts faience and glazed brick.
- The faience was hidden in kegs and hay to cross the frontier.
- A few examples of vessels in faience and ivory are also known.
- Derivation of ancient Egyptian faience core and glaze materials.
- It have carillon with 48 bells and a museum devote at the faience.
- But tea caddies were not for long confined to porcelain or faience.
- They followed the development of faience with the acquisition of porcelain.