terra sigillata

1. 1.

   earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos

   SynonymsSamian ware

   Broaderearthenware

Questions about terra sigillata

What does terra sigillata mean?

terra sigillata means "earthenware made from the reddish-brown clay found on the Aegean island of Lemnos".

What is another word for terra sigillata?

Close synonyms include Samian ware. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is terra sigillata a common word?

terra sigillata 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.