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terra-cotta

NOUN
baked earth
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Terra-cotta rooftops give this image of Venice’s main island its reddish color.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Terra-cotta Franklin medallions were served up by the thousand but could not satisfy the demand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Terra-cotta was also used for a very great number of other purposes, as was the case everywhere before the introduction of metals.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.

Terra-cotta, a kind of pottery made from fine clay, hardened by heat.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

Terra-cotta is useful but indefinite, as it may mean anything between brick-red and buff.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude




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