Definition of "engobe" [engobe]

• A white or colored clay slip coating applied to a ceramic body to give it decorative color or improved texture. (noun)
• A clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. (noun)

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• ""It goes through a bathing process in which the same color gives all of these tones," says Guzmán, who explains that it is an engobe (liquid clay) bath that is used."
• "Some amphorae are covered in an engobe, a slip of levigated white clay."
• "The term is used for patterns incised into the whitish slip coating (or engobe) of a pot (before the second firing) exposing the contrasting reddish body underneath."