terra cotta

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   a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware

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Questions about terra cotta

What does terra cotta mean?

terra cotta means "a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware".

Is terra cotta a common word?

terra cotta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.