Meaning of faience | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of faience.
   alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
2. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
   countable, uncountable
3. Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The smile, you see, is perfect—wonderful / As mere Faience! a table ornament / To suit the richest mounting.”

“If she had wondered what Mrs. Burrage wished so particularly to talk about, she waited some time for the clearing-up of the mystery. During this interval she sat in a remarkably pretty boudoir, where there were flowers and faiences and little French pictures, and watched her hostess revolve round the subject in circles the vagueness of which she tried to dissimulate.”

“The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.”

“The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.”

“Beneath these booths were spread their goods; silks from Cos, bronze weapons and copper rods, or ingots from the rich mines of Cyprus, linens and muslins from Egypt; beads, idols, carven bowls, knives, glass ware, pottery in all shapes, and charms made of glazed faience or Egyptian stone; […].”

“It may well be admitted that this love for faïence was only the setting of the drama, and that the hobby for collecting carried to such a degree of enthusiasm deserves to be studied almost as much as the passion for women and gambling, ambition or avarice.”

“At a height of two hundred and twenty-five feet from the ground it is crowned by a cone-shaped spire, in whose side are many rows of ornamental niches in which are hung pieces of faïence.”

“However, analysis has shown that the composition of the vessel fragments found at Kerma, typical of faïences found in Middle Kingdom Egypt, with particularly close parallels to those found at Lisht by the Metropolitan Museum Expedition, differs on the whole from the large glazed tiles and larger vessels found at the site that do appear to be of Nubian manufacture (Lacovara 1998: 48).”

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