porcelain
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French porcelaine, from roa-oit porcellana, from porcella from porco with -ella.
Pronunciation Nounporcelain
- (usually, uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
- (usually, uncountable) Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
- c. 1530, letter in Original Letters Illustrative of English History, Vol. II, p. 242:
- He set the table with our porcelain and stemware.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of kaolin: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.
- (countable, now usually, in the plural) An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.
- The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.
- (countable, rare) Synonym of cowrie.
- (countable, obsolete or historic) Synonym of wampum: strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc.
- (countable, often capitalized) A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.
- French: porcelaine
- German: Porzellan
- Italian: porcellana
- Portuguese: porcelana
- Russian: фарфо́р
- Spanish: porcelana, loza
- French: porcelaine
- German: Porzellan
- Portuguese: porcelana
- Russian: фарфо́р
- Spanish: porcelana
porcelain (porcelains, present participle porcelaining; simple past and past participle porcelained)
- (transitive) To coat with a porcelain enamel.
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