terra cotta

Main Entry:
terra-cotta
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: baked earth
Synonyms: adobe, argil, ceramic clay, terra cotta
Main Entry: pottery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: containers made from clay; clay art
Synonyms: ceramics, crockery, earthenware, firing, glazing, porcelain, porcelainware, stoneware, terra cotta
Main Entry: earthenware
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crockery
Synonyms: ceramics, pottery, stoneware, terra cotta
Notes: earthenware is low-fired clay, porcelain is high-fired, stoneware is about halfway between earthenware and porcelain in quality and durability, and the term china can be applied to any porcelain, earthenware, or ceramicware dishes or crockery
Main Entry: brown
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dark, burnished color
Synonyms: amber, auburn, bay, beige, bister, brick, bronze, buff, burnt sienna, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, copper, drab, dust, ecru, fawn, ginger, hazel, henna, khaki, mahogany, nut, ochre, puce, russet, rust, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, tawny, terra-cotta, toast, umber
Related Words
Main Entry: brown
Part of Speech: adjective
Related
Adjectives:
aithochrous, auburn, bay, bronze, brown, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brunette, brunneous, butterscotch, café au lait, castaneous, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee, dapple, fawn, fulvous, fuscous, ginger, glandaceous, khaki, liver, mahogany, maroon, mousy, nut, russet, snuff, tan, tanned, tawny, tortoiseshell, whity
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Brown.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light
Synonyms:
-nouns
brown, brunet, brunette., [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown.
-verbs
render brown; tan, embrown, bronze.
-adjectives
brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki., sun-burnt, sunburned, tawny; tanned.
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