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Middlemarch vocabulary

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majolica: tags: [art]

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Definition:

a word for painted pottery, whose use is not always precise, and can be confusing. Note the different spellings ("i" and "j"), often confused, and different meanings. [...]

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"Please don’t talk to me about the opera; you know nothing about music. I’d better meet you on your own ground, and talk about your majolica and engravings. Come now, what treasure have you been buying lately at the old curiosity shops?"

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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At her third ascent the rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica—every knot in every straw was visible.

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

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It was a magnificent site, a fortress with eighteen towers over a hundred feet tall, covered in Kufic inscriptions, majolica, and frescoes.

Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.238 (2014)