majolica

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ma⋅jol⋅i⋅ca

[muh-jol-i-kuh, muh-yol-]

–noun

1.	Italian earthenware covered with an opaque glaze of tin oxide and usually highly decorated.

2.	any earthenware having an opaque glaze of tin oxide.

Also, maiolica.

Origin:
1545–55; ear-lier maiolica < It < ML, var. of LL Mājorica Majorca, where it was made

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ma·jol·i·ca (mə-jŏl'ĭ-kə, -yŏl'-)

Tin-glazed earthenware that is often richly colored and decorated, especially an earthenware of this type produced in Italy.
Pottery made in imitation of this earthenware.

[Italian maiolica, from Medieval Latin Māiōlica, Majorca (where it was made), alteration of Late Latin Māiōrica.]

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