fictile
Example Sentences
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When the remains were burned, a fictile vessel was used to contain the ashes.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
Dr. Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
Textile and fictile arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other.
From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry
"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
The decorative and fictile art of the Parthians has received no inconsiderable amount of illustration from remains discovered, in the years 1850-1852, in Babylonia.
