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Meanings of fired clay in English

Russian
терракота
Portuguese
terracota
Spanish
terracota
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Clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic.

        терракота
        Synonyms
        Examples for "terra cotta"
        Examples for "terra cotta"
        1
        Other New England potteries are eminent for terra cotta and granite wares.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
        2
        At this time glazed terra cotta came to be used by sculptors.
        Early European History
        3
        Stone lions defy, and terra cotta stags run away from, porcelain dogs.
        Riviera Towns
        4
        The Corinthian, vessels of terra cotta were the finest in Greece.
        The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
        5
        Brick and terra cotta seem to have a natural affinity for one another.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
        Usage of fired clay in English
        1
        Self-caterers can also cook over the fire or use the wood- fired clay oven.
        The Guardian
        2
        The result is buildings being repaired in cheaper materials such as concrete and fired clay bricks.
        The South African
        3
        Beside it was a fired clay wash basin.
        Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
        4
        Another tile, this one of crude fired clay.
        Stonewielder
        5
        Black ink against skin the colour of fired clay, lashing, twisting, moving in ways nothing ever should.
        Future Lovecraft
        6
        Their weapons hacked great gouges out of its armour, which appeared to be layered plates of solid stone or fired clay.
        Orb Sceptre Throne
        7
        It was made of ceramic, fired clay, and it was the first material ever created by human hand and human intelligence.
        The Plains of Passage
        8
        They had been carrying capacious leather pouches from which they now drew gobbets of rank-smelling meat and bottles of fired clay.
        Rogues
        9
        The bricks were set in a bitumen mortar, which soaked into the fired clay, forming a bond as strong as the bricks themselves.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        10
        The meal concluded, and as they sat back to sip ale from fired clay mugs, Bremen told Cogline what had befallen the Druids at Paranor.
        The First King of Shannara
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        Translations for fired clay
        Portuguese
        terracota
        Spanish
        terracota