fictile

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Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.

From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by Holmes, William Henry

The inferiority of their religious architecture was due to the natural formation of their country, which restricted them almost entirely to the use of a fictile material.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.

From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas