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  faience

  noun

  glazed earthenware or pottery, especially a fine variety with highly colored designs.
• faïence
  faïence

faience

American  

[fahy-ahns, fey-, fa-yahns] / faɪˈɑns, feɪ-, faˈjɑ̃s /

Or faïence

noun

1. glazed earthenware or pottery, especially a fine variety with highly colored designs.

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faïence British  

/ faɪˈɑːns, feɪ- /

noun

1. 1. tin-glazed earthenware, usually that of French, German, Italian, or Scandinavian origin

   2. ( as modifier )

      a faïence cup

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Etymology

Origin of faience

1705–15; < French, originally pottery of Faenza, city in northern Italy

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faience faïence

The site contains a large number of ovens and kilns for making glass and faience, along with the debris of thousands of statues, said Betsy Bryan, a specialist of Amenhotep III’s reign.

From Reuters ● Apr. 8, 2021

He sets his table with French antiques, including 1790s silverware, belle époque damask napkins and 19th-century faience plates.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

The board, which was discovered in Egypt early in the nineteenth century, occupies the back of a carved hippopotamus, its hollows set amid inlaid glass on blue faience.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 26, 2019

Constructed in the early centuries of the first millennium, this ceremonial noisemaker is coated in brilliant blue faience, which retains its otherworldly gloss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2018

This is the largest known piece of Egyptian glazed faience; really large vases of faience are not found.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Pouring out into two chipped, cheap, faïence cups the remains of the swill in the bottle, Olezhek shook his head with a heavy sigh.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2014

Among the numerous bequests of generous citizens is a collection of faïence lately left by a tradeswoman, whose portrait commemorates the deed.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Here we bargain and chaffer with towering bonnets blancs for peasant pottery and faïence, paintable half-worn stuffs, and delicious ancestral odds and ends of broken peasant households.

From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

The original is a statuette in faïence, ten inches high, and was discovered by Sir Arthur Evans in the palace at Knossos in Crete.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

And he points out how in the eighteenth century French taste influenced Alsatian faïence, woven stuffs, ironwork, sculpture, wood-carving and furniture, even peasant interiors being thereby modified.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards