faience

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From French faïence, named after the city of Faenza, Italy, where it was made in the 16th century.

It contained an admirable collection of furniture, pictures, wood carvings, and faience. — The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar, Maurice Leblanc
It was then that the chiens de faience, which the smug Paris suburbanite of to-day so loves, were born. — Royal Palaces and Parks of France, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Her dressing-room, an aesthetic fantasy of Vivian Bell, with its coarsely varnished pottery, its tall copper pitchers, and its faience pavement, like a chess-board, resembled a fairy’s kitchen. — The Red Lily — Complete, Anatole France

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