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faiences

faiences is the plural of faience.

Meaning of faience

Noun

faience (countable and uncountable, plural faiences)

  1. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
    • The smile, you see, is perfect—wonderful / As mere Faience! a table ornament / To suit the richest mounting.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to...
  2. Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
    • 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; […].1898, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter IV, in Elissa […]

Questions about faiences

What is faiences the plural of?
Faiences is the plural of faience.

Words near faiences in the dictionary

  1. FAI
  2. Faial
  3. Faiella
  4. Faiellas
  5. faience
  6. faiences
  7. faieries
  8. faiery
  9. FAIF
  10. faifeau
  11. faifeaus

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