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Porcelain

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Noun

1. porcelain

ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Porcelain

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noun
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

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Porcelain

see synonyms of porcelain
noun
1. 
a hard, white, nonporous, translucent variety of ceramic ware, made of kaolin, feldspar, and quartz or flint
2. 
porcelain dishes or ornaments, collectively
adjective
3. 
made of porcelain

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Porcelain

see synonyms of porcelain
n.
1. A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.
2. An object made of this substance.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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