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.

   [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.

   1860, George Eliot, chapter IV, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons

3. uncountableA kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze.

   Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware.

   1906, Edmund H. Osthaus, “Interesting Facts about Mexican Pottery”, in Brush and Pencil, volume 18, number 3, page 91

4. A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.