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Arretine ware

[ ar-uh-tahyn, -teen ]

noun

  1. a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Tuscany from 100 b.c. to a.d. 100 and widely traded.


Arretine ware

noun

  1. another term for Samian ware
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Arretine ware1

1775–85; < Latin Arrētīnus, derivative of Arrētium (modern Arezzo), a town in Tuscany where such pottery was made; -ine 1

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