hard paste

hard paste

noun
true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
French, pâte dure.
Compare soft paste.


Origin:
1840–50
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Hard paste is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hard paste
 
n
a.  porcelain made with kaolin and petuntse, of Chinese origin and made in Europe from the early 18th century
 b.  (as modifier): hard-paste porcelain

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