porcelain
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sə noun
1.
a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
2.
ware made from this.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a more or less translucent ceramic material, the principal ingredients being kaolin and petuntse (hard paste) or other clays, ground glassy substances, soapstone, bone ash, etc |
| 2. | an object made of this or such objects collectively |
| 3. | (modifier) of, relating to, or made from this material: a porcelain cup |
| [C16: from French porcelaine, from Italian porcellana cowrie shell, porcelain (from its shell-like finish), literally: relating to a sow (from the resemblance between a cowrie shell and a sow's vulva), from porcella little sow, from porca sow, from Latin; see | |
| porcellaneous | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
porcelain
c.1530, from M.Fr. porcelaine, from It. porcellana "porcelain" (13c.), lit. "cowrie shell," the chinaware so called from resemblance to the shiny surface of the shells. The shell's name in It. is from porcella "young sow," fem. of L. porcellus "young pig," dim. of porculus "piglet," dim. of porcus "pig."
Supposedly the shells were so called because the shape of the orifice reminded someone of the vaginas of pigs.
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Example sentences
Experts in rare coins, porcelain and other arcane areas have been laid off or turned into consultants.
Put in a granite or porcelain-lined preserving kettle, and add cold water to come nearly to top of apples.
So insignificant was the porcelain pissoir at the time that no one can remember exactly what happened to it.
Pottery, porcelain and the casting cores of bronzes can be dated by the amount of radiation the piece absorbs.
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