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majolica

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

majolica(n = noun.artifact) maiolica - highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide; Array

is a kind of earthenware

majolica, n. [It.].

A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy decoration, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century. [1913 Webster]

" The term is said to be derived from Majorca, which was an early seat of this manufacture." Heyse. [1913 Webster]

majolica, n. (also maiolica)
1 a 19th-c. trade name for earthenware with coloured decoration on an opaque white glaze.
2 = MAIOLICA.

Etymology

alt. f. MAIOLICA

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