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
Dr. Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
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
The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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
