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terra cotta
From the Italian for "baked earth," any fired earthenware product, especially
one made from coarse, porous clay, red-brown in color and unglazed. Being
cheap, hard, and durable, it has been used from ancient times for building
and roofing, and for molded architectural ornament and statuettes. Its use
for sculpture and plaques was revived in the Renaissance and in the 18th
century.
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• BUILDING
AND ARCHITECTURE
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