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figuline, a. and n.|ˈfɪgjʊlɪn, -aɪn|
[ad. L. figulīnus, f. figulus potter.]
A. adj.
a. Such as is produced by the potter; made of earthenware.
b. Of earth: Suitable for the potter, fictile.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 146 Turpentine may not onely be well reserved in an iron or glass vessel, but in a figuline also. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 124 The Smectic and figuline Earths. 1697Evelyn Numism. viii. 280 Improving..Figuline Ware by Palissy's White Glaze. 1790Pennant London (1813) 171 Wedgewood..making it the repository of his figuline ware.
B. n.
1. An earthen vessel; in pl. pottery.
1878Longfellow Kéramos 106 This Potter..whose figulines and rustic wares scarce find him bread.
2. Potter's clay.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 383 The figuline, a greyish-brown clay, is procured from river-beds. |