faience
(noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
faience (countable and uncountable, plural faiences)
A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
(archaeology) The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.)
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Source: Wiktionary
Fa`ï*ence", n. Etym: [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.]
Definition: Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
