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truité

truité adjective: having a delicately crackled surface.

Adjective

truité (not comparable)

  1. Having a delicately crackled surface.
    • Scherzer also informs us that the crackle glaze was blown on to the porcelain and that two layers were applied to produce the finer (truité) crackle and four to produce the large crackle […]1925, Robert Lockhart Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China

Origin of truité

From French, derived from truite (“trout”).

Questions about truité

What does truité mean?
Truité means having a delicately crackled surface.
What part of speech is truité?
Truité is an adjective.

Words near truité in the dictionary

  1. truistic
  2. truistical
  3. truistically
  4. truists
  5. Truitt
  6. truité
  7. Trujillian
  8. Trujillism
  9. Trujillist
  10. Trujillists
  11. Trujillo

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