"terracotta" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an unglazed reddish-brown clay-like material that is used for pottery, roof tiles, and sculptures. For example, "The terracotta roof tiles complemented the earthy colors of the stucco walls."
Nearby, the 67-room Curtiss Hotel will open this summer in a historic terracotta office block.
Xian is known for its collection of terracotta warriors on the surrounding plains, but Shaanxi is the West Virginia of China.
Most rooms have some combination of iron bedsteads, terracotta floors and oak-beamed ceilings, and breakfast is a feast of Dionysian proportions.
It appears that King was a soldier in what a veteran Daily Mail writer likes to call "Martin Clarke's terracotta army".
Last year, he finished major work on a war-damaged chapel in Bourbourg, northern France, which involved erecting two high towers of oak, a concrete baptismal font and a series of wood, steel and terracotta sculptures.
Stay at Il Ruscello, a beautifully restored watermill for two people, with terracotta floors, beamed ceilings, exposed stone and French doors opening out onto a terrace.
I was able to see how the cavities of the reliefs had once been coloured with a bright terracotta red, and this was exactly the kind of effect that I too had been seeking from 1938 onwards, in some of my own works.
Mr Wolfson, an unashamed egoist with a lively sense of humour, says this play on the Smithsonian museums is altogether intentional.The museums are the beneficiaries of the largest American collection of German, Italian and American political propaganda, including a bronzed terracotta bust of Mussolini in continuous profile.
Though tourists know Xian for its army of terracotta warriors, the capital of Shaanxi province is quietly becoming one of China's most modern cities.
But Ife remained and remains the spiritual home of the Yoruba-speaking people.In 1910 Leo Frobenius, a German explorer, saw Ife's superbly modelled terracotta sculptures and a single brass head.
The blown glass, for example, was made in Venice and the glazed terracotta plaques in Florence.
