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porcelain

30 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. porcelain (noun)
  2. porcelain ampelopsis (noun)
  3. porcelain blue (noun)
  4. porcelain cement (noun)
  5. porcelain clay (noun)
  6. porcelain crab (noun)
  7. porcelain enamel (noun)
  8. porcelain green (noun)
  9. porcelain jasper (noun)
  10. porcelain paper (noun)
  11. porcelain stone (noun)
  12. alumina porcelain (noun)
  13. Berlin porcelain (noun)
  14. bone porcelain (noun)
  15. chemical porcelain (noun)
  16. Chinese export porcelain (noun)
  17. hard-paste porcelain (noun)
  18. Herend porcelain (noun)
  19. mandarin porcelain (noun)
  20. Nankeen porcelain (noun)
  21. natural porcelain (noun)
  22. Oriental export porcelain (noun)
  23. Plymouth porcelain (noun)
  24. soft-paste porcelain (noun)
  25. soft porcelain (noun)
  26. true porcelain (noun)
  27. Arita ware (noun)
  28. hard paste (noun)
  29. soft paste (noun)
  30. Worcester china (noun)

por·ce·lain

noun \ˈpȯr-s(ə-)lən\

Definition of PORCELAIN

1
: a hard, fine-grained, sonorous, nonporous, and usually translucent and white ceramic ware that consists essentially of kaolin, quartz, and a feldspathic rock and is fired at a high temperature —called also hard-paste porcelain, true porcelain
2
: soft-paste porcelain
— por·ce·lain·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective
— por·ce·la·ne·ous or por·cel·la·ne·ous \ˌpȯr-sə-ˈlā-nē-əs\ adjective
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Examples of PORCELAIN

  1. The bowl is made of porcelain.

Origin of PORCELAIN

Middle French porcelaine cowrie shell, porcelain, from Italian porcellana, from porcello vulva, literally, little pig, from Latin porcellus, diminutive of porcus pig, vulva; from the shape of the shell — more at farrow
First Known Use: circa 1530

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