faïence

See also: faience

English

Noun

faïence (countable and uncountable, plural faïences)

1. Alternative spelling of faience.
   • 1895, Champfleury [pen name; Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson], translated by Helen B. Dole, The Faïence Violin, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: […] Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], page vii:

     It may well be admitted that this love for faïence was only the setting of the drama, and that the hobby for collecting carried to such a degree of enthusiasm deserves to be studied almost as much as the passion for women and gambling, ambition or avarice.

   • [1910], The Wonders of the World: A Popular and Authentic Account of the Marvels of Nature and of Man as They Exist To-day, volume I, London: Hutchinson & Co., […], page 91:

     At a height of two hundred and twenty-five feet from the ground it is crowned by a cone-shaped spire, in whose side are many rows of ornamental niches in which are hung pieces of faïence.

   • 2021, Elena D’Itria, “Understanding the Kerma Amulets: the Ladder and Baboon Amulet-Beads”, in Rennan Lemos, Samantha Tipper, editors, Current Perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 2018 Sudan Studies Research Conference, Cambridge, Archaeopress, →ISBN, pages 36–37:

     However, analysis has shown that the composition of the vessel fragments found at Kerma, typical of faïences found in Middle Kingdom Egypt, with particularly close parallels to those found at Lisht by the Metropolitan Museum Expedition, differs on the whole from the large glazed tiles and larger vessels found at the site that do appear to be of Nubian manufacture (Lacovara 1998: 48).

French

Alternative forms

• fayence

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Faenza, a town in Italy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.jɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

faïence f (plural faïences)

1. faience

Derived terms

• se regarder en chiens de faïence

Related terms

• faïencerie
• faïencer

Further reading

• “faïence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• caféine
• fiancée