fictile
Example Sentences
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For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
In the first none of the fictile ware was turned on the wheel or fire-baked.
The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration.
From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by William Henry Holmes
His home was stored with the most beautiful products of the manufacturer's skill in fictile arts, and on its walls hung the most approved examples of the painter's skill.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
Al-Barníya, "vas fictile in quo quid recondunt," whence the Spanish word Albornia, "a great glazed vessel in the shape of a bowl, with handles."
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule