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A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material. quotations examples
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.
1886, Henry James, The Bostonians, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co.
The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin Enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
(archaeology) Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.