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Faience vs Delft - What's the difference?

faience | delft |

As a noun faience

is faience.

As a proper noun delft is

city in the netherlands, in the province of zuid-holland.

faience

English

(wikipedia faience)

Alternative forms

* fayence

Noun

  • A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
  • *1886 , , The Bostonians .
  • *: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.

    • References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology) *

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    delft

    English

    Etymology 1

    After the Dutch city of Delft.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A style of blue and white earthenware.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft , and here and there a bas-relief.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
  • * Ray
    • The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could keep them dry.
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