porcelain(n = noun.artifact) - ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic;
is a kind of ceramic ware
has particulars: china, spode
Purslain. [1913 Webster]
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also
"Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break." [1913 Webster]
porcelain, n.
1 a hard vitrified translucent ceramic.
2 objects made of this.
Idiom:
porcelain clay kaolin. porcelain-shell cowrie.
Derivative:
porcellaneous adj. porcellanous adj.
Etymology:
F porcelaine cowrie, porcelain f. It. porcellana f. porcella dimin. of porca sow (a cowrie being perh. likened to a sow's vulva) f. L porca fem. of porcus pig
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