Talavera

English

Noun

Talavera (plural Talaveras)

1. Talavera de la Reina, a city in the central Spanish region of Castile-La Mancha known for its pottery.
2. An 1809 battle during the Peninsula War fought outside the city.
   • 1860, George Eliot, chapter IV, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:

     [He] had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy.

3. (uncountable) A kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze.
   • 1906, Edmund H. Osthaus, “Interesting Facts about Mexican Pottery”, in Brush and Pencil‎^[1], volume 18, number 3, page 91:

     Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware.

Anagrams

• lavatera

Tagalog

Etymology

After Talavera (Lerida) and Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), a town and a city in Spain.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /talaˈveɾa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈvɛː.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /talaˈbeɾa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈbɛː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: Ta‧la‧ve‧ra

Proper noun

Talavera (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊᜒᜇ)

1. A municipality in central Nueva Ecija, Philippines
2. a surname