Talavera

English

Noun

Talavera (plural Talaveras)

  1. A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, known for its pottery; in full, Talavera de la Reina.
  2. An 1809 battle during the Peninsula War fought outside the city.
    • 1860, George Eliot, chapter IV, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:
      [He] had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy.
  3. (uncountable) A kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze.
    • 1906, Edmund H. Osthaus, “Interesting Facts about Mexican Pottery”, in Brush and Pencil‎[1], volume 18, number 3, page 91:
      Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware.

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

After Talavera (Lerida) and Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), a town and a city in Spain.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /talaˈveɾa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈvɛː.ɾɐ]
    • IPA(key): (with nativization) /talaˈbeɾa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈbɛː.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Syllabification: Ta‧la‧ve‧ra

Proper noun

Talavera (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊᜒᜇ)

  1. a municipality in central Nueva Ecija, Philippines
  2. a surname
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