terracotta
noun
a hard, fired clay, brownish-red in color when unglazed, that is used for architectural ornaments and facings, structural units, pottery, and as a material for sculpture.
terracottas
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pluralof terracotta.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We encounter paintings on canvas and on copper; bronzes, terracottas and an impressive ivory; dispassionate portraits, intimate sketches and pitiless caricatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Much more expensive and much less fragile, the marble versions were considered supreme, while the terracottas were deemed provisional and even dispensable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Anthony Radcliffe, who has died aged 77, was a leading curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for more than 30 years, and the most gifted connoisseur of Italian bronzes and terracottas of his generation.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011
Rustici left his own interpretations of Leonardo’s murals in the form of terracottas for which, as Vasari noted, there was considerable demand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
Of course his silence does not prove that there were none; but with all the finds of acroteria, terracottas and the like, no trace of any such sculptures was discovered.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
