Definitions
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- noun An unglazed hard-baked clay pottery
- noun A reddish brown colour, like that of
terra cotta . - adjective Of a reddish brown colour, like that of
terra cotta .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He began using cream-colored stationery embossed with his name in terra-cotta letters: RAYMOND CARVER.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Do yourself a favor and eat at the big, terra-cotta colored restaurant right in the middle of town.
Recommendations? 2009
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Harry suggested a terra-cotta red and he was right.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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At Sitka & Spruce, braised lamb simmers with flageolet beans in a fireplace and ends up in a terra-cotta pot with grilled house-made merguez sausage, a poached egg from The Corson Building's chicken coop and a brown butter and walnut drizzle.
Grilled Lamb Chops With Salsa Verde and Yogurt Sauce Kitty Greenwald 2011
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Today, inside the terra-cotta colored building, giant trees stretch more than 20 meters into the air through a caved-in roof.
Batavia's Down But Not Out Joe Cochrane 2011
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And who could deny that this postcard-perfect landscape of vast blue waters and sloping green hills dotted with terra-cotta villas is anything but dazzling?
Maria Russo: Glamour, Gardens and George Clooney in Lake Como Maria Russo 2011
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The sight lines are such that as we take in a seventh-century 3½-foot vertical stele of Vishnu from northern or eastern India we also catch a glimpse of a terra-cotta roundel made some 200 years earlier.
From Stillness, Cosmic Action Lee Lawrence 2011
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Do yourself a favor and eat at the big, terra-cotta colored restaurant right in the middle of town.
Recommendations? 2009
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Do yourself a favor and eat at the big, terra-cotta colored restaurant right in the middle of town.
Recommendations? 2009
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A row of sculptures—from the tender, white marble "Alsatian Orphan" and patinated terra-cotta "Bust of a Woman" to the exuberant bronze "Head of Balzac"—lines the gallery's mantle.
A Close-Up of a Master Lance Esplund 2011
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