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arretine ware

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Ar⋅re⋅tine ware

  [ar-uh-tahyn, -teen]
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–noun
a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Tuscany from 100 b.c. to a.d. 100 and widely traded.
Also called terra sigillata.

Origin:
1775–85; < L Arrētīnus, deriv. of Arrētium (modern Arezzo), a town in Tuscany where such pottery was made; see -ine 1
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