Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
faience .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
faïence .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
faience .
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Examples
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Fragments of countless thousands of wine-jars and blue fayence drinking-vessels have been found in the ruins of the palace; and contemporary objects and paintings show us some of the exquisitely wrought bowls of gold and silver which must have graced the royal tables, and the charming toilet utensils which were to be found in the sleeping apartments.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
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The interior of this chief mosque is not deprived of ornament, having its columns of pink marble, its elliptical Moorish arches, and its tiles of painted fayence set in the walls.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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Upstairs are collections of antique glass, necklaces, fayence from
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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In every room we have upon every article of _fayence_ -- "Leopold, with the Genius of
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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