Encaustic Tile
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“Encaustic tile, a tile for pavement- and wall-decoration, in which the pattern is inlaid or incrusted in clay of one color in a ground of clay of another color. The manufacture and employment of encaustic tiles were brought to great excellence in connection with the architecture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, particularly in France and England; and the art has been successfully revived in the nineteenth century.” -Whitney, 1911
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England, France, pattern, middle ages, 13th century architecture, encaustic tile, medieval pavement, church of St. Pierre-sure-Dive, clay tilesGalleries
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William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
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