10 examples of faience in sentences

marble, bronze, terra cotta [Sp.], papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma. statue, &c (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca^. V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast [Slang].

She talked alone with Manuel for a lengthy while, in a room that was walled with glazed tiles of faience and had its ceiling incrusted with moral axioms, everywhere affixed thereto in a light lettering of tin, so as to permit of these axioms being readily changed.

She has been much occupied in the decoration of the Haviland faience, a branch of these works, at Auteuil, being at one time in charge of her husband, Félix Bracquemond.

Bracquemond had the faculty of employing the faience colors so well that she produced a clearness and richness not attained by other artists.

The progress made in the Haviland faience in the seventies was very largely due to Mme.

aux dressoirs de faience ou étincalaient les etains et les cuivres qui, par la porte ouverte, se reflétaient dans un canal paisible.

They were islanders, just as at the Bodega, with cold faience eyes, crimson complexions, thoughtful or haughty airs.

FAENZA (14), an old Italian cathedral town, 31 m. SE. of Bologna; noted for its manufacture of majolica ware, known from the name of the town as "faience.

MAJOLICA, a kind of enamelled pottery imported into Italy from Majorca, known also as faience from its manufacture at Faenza, and applied also to vessels made of coloured clay in imitation.

Windows, broader than they are high, occupy the whole of the front; and behind these windows, spread luxuriantly in porcelain or faience or earthen flowerpots, plants of every description; geraniums, verbenas, fuchsiasand this absolutely without exception.

10 examples of  faience  in sentences