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n. - Crockery, tiles of bricks.

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Usage examples (8)
  • This style derives its name from the betus oil in which the clayware is immersed before it is fired in the kiln.
  • Shrinkage is inevitable on drying clayware such as bricks.
  • Only this burnished clayware retained its painting when it was dug up from burial grounds centuries later.
  • Aside from the aforementioned styles of Tonalá pottery, the museum also has betus and alta temperature clayware on exhibit.
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