Terracotta is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TERRACOTTA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a type of pottery
• a statuette or other object made of terracotta.
• a strong brownish-red or brownish-orange colour
• a type of fired clay, typically of a brownish-red colour and unglazed, used as an ornamental building material and in modelling
ADJECTIVE:
• (Italian) reddish-brown
• reddish-brown

Words related to TERRACOTTA

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Words that contain TERRACOTTA

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How to use TERRACOTTA in a sentence

• He sat within a small circle of brilliant light which gleamed upon his silver shoulder-straps, and threw out his terra-cotta face, his heavy eyebrows, and his yellow moustache.
• With all their beautiful colouring they are merely formed of different shades of local stone, together with a little terra-cotta.
• The tower is embellished with a terra-cotta frieze.
• It had made a little garden, with little terra-cotta statues.
• It is thought that Lord Marney brought over Italian workmen to make the terra-cotta, for there is a classic touch about the ornaments.
• On the terra-cotta mouldings, so frequent in Lombard cities, I have already had occasion to touch briefly.
• While he was a boy, says Vasari, Lionardo modelled in terra-cotta certain heads of women smiling.
• Curious prehistoric caves with ancient terra-cotta figures resembling only others found in Japan and supplying a curious link.
• The earthenware is of a fine terra-cotta, generally of a light red color, and slightly baked, but occasionally of a yellow hue, with a tinge of green.
• Near by is the monument of Pacifico Bon, the architect of the Frari, with a Florentine relief of the Baptism of Christ in terra-cotta, a little too high to be seen well.
• Beside it, near the next altar, is a very beautiful group in glazed terra-cotta, in the manner of the della Robbia, by Fra Paolino.
• The beautiful terra-cotta over the great door of Madonna and Child with Angels, and the roof above, are the work of Andrea della Robbia.
• These figures are of terra-cotta, for the most part life-size, and painted up to nature.
• On the hills behind the gardens were many modern houses admirably built after the Italian fashion, whose mellow terra-cotta blended effectively with the green mass below.
• One especially, the Grotta dei Bassirilievi, has interesting reliefs cut in the rock and painted, while the walls of another were decorated with painted tiles of terracotta.
• The hard trail, like some carefully set out terra-cotta ribbon upon a field of tawny green, took them through a region of busy harvesting.
• This artist has also given some time to the decoration of terra-cotta in oil colors.
• Some half-covered children, who stalked her wherever she went, stood like terra-cotta images at a distance and waited for her next movement.
• It usually takes the form of stone, face-brick, terra-cotta, tile, stucco, or some combination of two or more of these materials.
• I propose to confine myself here to the ten or a dozen chapels containing life-sized terra-cotta figures, painted up to nature, that form one of the main features of the place.
• Thomas Chadwick gazed absently at the Town Park, with its terra-cotta fountains and terraces, and beyond the Park, at the smoke rising from the distant furnaces of Red Cow.
• The rose in terracotta of the facade is a work of this time, as is the exquisite baldacchino over the high altar within, upheld by two pilasters and two columns of Greek marble.
• The commonest were made of terra-cotta, the better sorts of bronze or silver, often richly ornamented and sometimes very graceful.
• Grey, yellow, brown, fawn, terra-cotta, even pale orange are to be noted.
• Effigies of the god are made of terra-cotta, painted and gilded, and borne by processions through the streets.
• The ironwork of these pillars is exposed and encloses the terra-cotta work like a Spanish net, with very original effect and very interesting constructive frankness.
• The materials are local brick for the lower portions, and buff Perth Amboy brick and terra-cotta above.

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