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  faience

  noun

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

faience

American  

[fahy-ahns, fay-, 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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Example Sentences

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faience faïence

But what about the cute little faience hippo in the same vitrine?

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

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

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

The wall of the arcade gleams with lustrous faience, purple and red, azure and milk-white, and with patterns of great flowers with green centers and turquoise leaves.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens

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

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

That produced in Kagja is faïence, and in the style of painting is unlike any other in Japan, the predominating color being a light red, used with green and gold.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various

The Aubusson carpets of France still maintained their position, as did the velvet, faïence, tapestry, engravings, books, marine photographs, etc. of the same country.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

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

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