maiolica
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English
Noun
maiolica (countable and uncountable, plural maiolicas)
- Alternative form of majolica (“earthenware coated with opaque white tin glaze”)
- 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
- The word Majolica, or Maiolica was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
- 1999, Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, Dictionary of Minton, ACC Art Books (2nd Revised edition 1 Jan. 1999), page #:124
- 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
Italian
Noun
maiolica f (plural maioliche)