Palissy

[ pa-lee-see ]

noun

1. Ber·nard [be, r, -, nar], c1510–89, French potter, enameler, and author.

Palissy

/ palisi /

noun

1. PalissyBernard15101589MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: potterWRITING: writer Bernard (bɛrnar). 1510–89, French Huguenot potter and writer on natural history, noted for his rustic glazed earthenware: died in the Bastille

Example Sentences

Our meats were served upon porcelain that would have driven Palissy to despair.

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Palissy essayed to imitate this wonder but attacked the problem from the standpoint of an opaque glaze.

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This ware is sometimes sold under the name of maiolica but it is more nearly an imitation of Palissy.

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Palissy has written his own story, and it has the interest of romance and the fervor of faith.

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Palissy was one of those earnest, intense, narrow natures who believed their faith was the only true faith for man.

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