faience
A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
Other meanings
or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
A kind of
- earthenware
Related words
- semifaience
Word history
From French "faïence".
Where this comes from
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