fictile
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Greek embroideries we can perfectly appreciate, by studying Hope’s “Costumes of the Ancients,” and the works of Millingen and others; also the fictile vases in the British Museum and elsewhere.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
In the first none of the fictile ware was turned on the wheel or fire-baked.
Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.
From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford