a type of Chinese porcelain characterized either by a design on a background of yellow (famille jaune) or black (famille noire) or by a design in which the predominant colour is pink (famille rose) or green (famille verte)
Word origin
C19: literally: family
Examples of 'famille' in a sentence
famille
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These Livy and Ginny brought experts in to identify, and found they were K'ang-hsi famille verte baluster vases and Buddhistic lions.