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Criminal seizing top-quality pottery
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faience
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Word definitions for faience in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Faience or faïence ( or ; ) is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body, originally associated by French speakers with wares exported from Faenza in northern Italy. The invention of a white pottery ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fine kind of pottery or earthenware, 1714, from French faïence (16c.), probably from Fayence , French form of Faenza , city in Italy that was a noted ceramics center 16c. The city name is Latin faventia , literally "silence, meditation," perhaps a reference ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
faience \faience\, Faience \Fa`["i]*ence"\, n. [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze.
Usage examples of faience.
Varnished Faiences -- Enamelled Faiences -- Silicious Faiences -- Pipeclay Faiences -- Pebble Work -- Feldspathic Faiences -- Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements of Faience Potteries -- Stoneware.
Suleiman or Sultan Ahmet with all their mihrabs and minbers, their stalactite niches and faienced walls.
If the substance in question here was even somewhat volatile, as long as it was preserved in an anaerobic substance like honey, which was well known to the ancients, or sealed within a container crafted from a nonporous material like faience, gold, or glass, it could remain quite deadly and still be quite dangerous today.
The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters.