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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 name of Delft is most intimately associated with the manufacture of the beautiful faience pottery for which it was once famous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 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

To certain classes of objects, such as scarabs, blue glazed faïence, linen sheets, mummy bandages and garments, terracotta vases and vessels, alabaster jars, etc., special rooms are devoted.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 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

It has recently been enriched by art treasures worth a million of francs, the gift of a rich citizen and his wife, tapestries, faïence, furniture, enamels, ivories, illuminated MSS., rare bindings, engraved gems.

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

Then came the painter, the dealer in faïence, and Mademoiselle Louise; and, thanks to Martinon, who had carried her chair to enable her to take a seat near Louise, Frederick found himself beside Madame Arnoux.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert

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