Majolica Definition

mə-jŏlĭ-kə, -yŏl-
noun
A variety of Italian pottery, enameled, glazed, and richly colored and decorated.
Webster's New World
Pottery like this.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • maiolica

Other Word Forms of Majolica

Noun

Singular:
majolica
Plural:
majolicas

Origin of Majolica

  • Majolica is an Anglicized version of the Italian maiolica. It is named after the Island of Majorca (formerly known as Maiolica), which once was a commerce center for work produced in Valencia, Spain.

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian maiolica from Medieval Latin Māiōlica Majorca (where it was made) alteration of Late Latin Māiōrica

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Majolica Sentence Examples

  • To these may be added the industrial museum, the cabinet of coins, the museum of natural history, the collection of majolica vases in the new palace, and the Wurttemberg museum of antiquities.

  • The campanile (850-878) is circular, and has perhaps the earliest example of the use of disks of coloured majolica as a decoration.

  • There are manufactures of paper, hats, leather, ropes, porcelain, majolica, soap, spirits, and ornaments made of palm leaves and grasses.

  • It contains the famous Tabulae Iguvinae, and a collection of paintings of the Umbrian school, of furniture and of majolica.

  • Gubbio occupies a far more important place in the history of majolica.

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Words Starting With

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