PORCELAIN
\pˈɔːsɪlˌɪn], \pˈɔːsɪlˌɪn], \p_ˈɔː_s_ɪ_l_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of PORCELAIN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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A fine kind of earthenware, white, thin, and semi-transparent.
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French, Latin] The finest kind of earthen ware; a species of china between earthen and glass ware, and therefore semi-pellucid—it is made of petuntzee, which is fusible and easily vitrified, and kaolin, which though fusible is not verifiable at the same temperature, and so preserves the earthy opaque form in the compound;—in popular language, any stone ware with a white, glazed, semi-transparent surface.
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