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It may get fired
Answer for the clue "It may get fired ", 7 letters:
ceramic
Alternative clues for the word ceramic
- Like many bathroom tiles
- Type of tile
- Kind of glaze or mosaic
- Cup perhaps parted from saucer amicably
- Museum piece
- Military leader straddling horse, recalled in pottery?
- An artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
- Tile type
- Fired pitcher?
Word definitions for ceramic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, keramic , from Greek keramikos , from keramos "potter's clay, pottery, tiles," perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word. Watkins suggests possible connection with Latin cremare "to burn," but Klein's sources are firmly against this. Spelling influenced by ...
Usage examples of ceramic.
It was a ceramic disc, an ancient coin exactly like the coin the anchorite had given him.
A ceramic coin hung from his long supple neck by a doubled leather thong, and a circlet woven from coypu hair and studded with tiny black seed pearls was loose on his upper arm.
Calamity less than two weeks ago, there had been no crocheted tea cozies in the cell, no ceramic teapot for them to hug, and no tea table for the teapot to rest on.
Kerrie deposited spoons and a black ceramic sugar bowl and creamer on the gray place mat in the center of the table, then sat across from Roman.
The floor -tiles would be coming next week, special ceramic jobs from Italy in ecru and ivory and black.
He picked up the ceramic figurine of a fancily dressed dancing lord and lady from an end table next to Beheim.
Narrow slabs of ceramic floated in the air and gusts of hot, dry air blew from random directions.
If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic.
The decor was Oriental, stark interiors in which were displayed works of art that Peter knew from his previous visit were of incalculable value antique Japanese brush paintings on silk panels, carvings in jade and ivory, a display of tiny netsuke and in an atrium through which they passed was a miniature forest of Bonsai trees in their shallow ceramic bowls, the frozen contortions of their trunks and branches a sign of their great age.
Muttering insructions to one another, Hutena and Ninon gripped the rim of the stoppered ceramic jug nestled in a bed of sand and camphor within the strongbox.
Hutena and Ninon gripped the rim of the stoppered ceramic jug nestled in a bed of sand and camphor within the strongbox.
He used his strong hands to fracture the seal and brought out the lamp, crafted like one of his origami herons in a delicate ceramic.
A working fireplace, paintings and tapestry, imager prints in ornate frames, a dark green carpet with black tracery through it, plants in bright ceramic pots, ceramic lamps with pseudo fires burning pseudo oil.
Three bodies, already putrefying, lay on the pale green ceramic tiles between the corner table-desk and the circular table.
The wagon is loaded with ceramic crocks of the kind used to hold rapeseed oil, all roped fast to the sideboards.