Look up: faience

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   Faience
   A glazed material, with a base of either carved soapstone or moulded clay, with an overlay of blue/green colored glass.
   Found on http://www.egyptartsite.com/glossary.htm
   
   
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   faience
   [n] - glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   faience
   glazed tilework
   Found on http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/glos
   
   
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   faience
   Any glazed earthenware, using crushed quartz. Faience was used in ancient Egypt for amulets, tiles, and small statues, although the term itself derives from the Italian city of Faenza, famous for...
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   faience
   a glazed or unglazed tile made by the plastic process Category: Building industry
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Faience
   glazed earthenware, usually cream, used as a decorative cladding, particularly in the earlier 20th century, retail, cinema and industrial facades (first manufactured at Faenza in Italy). It is produced by firing twice, first without and then with a glaze.
   Found on http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glo
   
   
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   faience
   The name given to the French tin-glazed earthenware which developed from Italian maiolica. The term is also used for tin-glazed earthenware products from Germany and Scandinavia; the British equivalent of faience is delftware, the Dutch delft. Faience was first produced in any quantity in France from the late 16thC, mainly by Italians (the term der ...
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   Faïence
   Fa`ï·ence' noun [ French, from Faenza , a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/3
   
   
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   faience
   noun glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
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    Faience
    `Faience` or `faïence` is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. The invention seems to have been made in Iran or the Middle East before the ninth century, and there have even been records of the invention as far back as ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faience
    
    
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    Faience
    • (n.) Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
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    faience
    tin-glazed earthenware made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia. It is distinguished from tin-glzed earthenware made in Italy, which is called ... [7 related articles]
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    faience
    faience (fāens', –äns', fī–) [for Faenza, Italy], any of several kinds of pottery, especially earthenware made of coarse clay and covered with an opaque tin-oxide glaze. The term is particularly applied to the ceramic ornaments and figurines of the ancient Egypti...
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