Pronunciations (2)
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/tɛˈsteɪʃəs/
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tɛˈsteɪʃəs
Adjective
Pertaining to earthenware or baked clay.
Usage- Obsolete
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[T]hey were burnt, or only baked in Oven or Sunne: According to the ancient way, in many bricks, tiles, pots, and testaceous works […]
Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
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It has a very large head, in proportion to its body, all covered with a shell, like other testaceous Animals […]
More examples (2)
Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].
The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense.
Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.
Adjective
relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell
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testaceous fish