Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tin-glazed earthenware that is often richly colored and decorated, especially an earthenware of this type produced in Italy.
- noun Pottery made in imitation of this earthenware.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Decorative enameled pottery, especially that of Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
- noun As applied to modern pottery, a kind of ware which in effects of color partly imitates the pottery above defined, especially in large pieces used for architectural decoration, garden-seats, vases, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy decoration, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fine
Italian glazed earthenware ,coated withopaque white enamel andornamented withmetallic colours - noun Any other kind of glazed coloured earthenware or
faience
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She knew it well – the smell shops, the black marks of snow on the plaster ornaments of the front entrances, the plants in majolica pots or coloured tissue paper in the windows, the fashion-plates against the panes at the dressmaker's, and the narrow gateway leading to dark back-yards, where small heaps of dirty snow made the air still more raw.
Jenny: A Novel 1921
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Valencian Moors called majolica by foreigners because of its Majorcan origin.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Gubbio, where the peculiar kind of majolica above noted was made, is a small town once in the territory of the dukes of Urbino; and in the sixteenth century it became famous for its pottery.
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We took a little trip to Santa Rosa to buy some majolica pottery.
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We took a little trip to Santa Rosa to buy some majolica pottery.
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We took a little trip to Santa Rosa to buy some majolica pottery.
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As they "scream/across cut glass and majolica" Rich compares them to "Furies cornered from their prey."
Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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It was nicknamed the "Chateau de Faïence" because all of the exterior walls were covered with majolica and high relief.
Archive 2009-01-01 Julianne Douglas 2009
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It was nicknamed the "Chateau de Faïence" because all of the exterior walls were covered with majolica and high relief.
Quiz: Do You Know Your French Châteaux? Julianne Douglas 2009
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After feasting on Goya portraits, intricate lace and lustrous majolica, be sure to check out the National Academy of Arts and Letters.
chained_bear commented on the word majolica
"A typical late-nineteenth-century sideboard would also have displayed cut glass, examples of hand-painted French or German porcelain, 'antique' German or Italian glass, a German beer stein, a brass samovar, or a decorative piece of pottery—possibly Delft or majolica."
—Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 68
April 13, 2010