Porcelain /(?)/
Por·ce·lain
Porcelain
n.
- Purslain. (Bot.) [Obs.]
Porcelain
n.
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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.
Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.
Phrases & Compounds
- Ivory porcelain
- porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
- Porcelain clay
- See under Clay.
- Porcelain crab
- any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace.
- Porcelain jasper
- See Porcelanite.
- Porcelain printing
- the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.
- Porcelain shell
- a cowry.