ProbableNamed from the place
Abruzzi ware
noun · first attested 20th century
The pottery is named for a mountain region that most tourists skip.
Ornate Italian maiolica pottery of the fifteenth century.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Abruzzo
- In English
Abruzzi ware
Abruzzi is the older English and Italian plural for Abruzzo, the mountainous region east of Rome that was administered with Molise as Abruzzi e Molise until 1963. Castelli in the province of Teramo was its pottery town and worked in tin-glazed maiolica. The English collectors' label is recorded in twentieth-century dictionaries rather than in the period itself.
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