different between faience vs delft

English

Alternative forms

• fayence

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a??ns

Noun

faience (countable and uncountable, plural faiences)

1. A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic.
   • 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.

2. (archaeology) The beads and small ornaments of the eastern Mediterranean. (Of bronze and iron age manufacture using frit technology.)

Translations

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1] (etymology)
• “faience” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

Further reading

• faience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fiancee, fiancée

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d??ft]

Etymology 1

After the Dutch city of Delft.

Noun

delft (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”)

Etymology 2

Noun

delft (plural delfts)

1. A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.

   • The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could […] keep them dry.

Anagrams

• Feldt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lft

Verb

delft

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of delven
2. (archaic) plural imperative of delven