SINCE 1828
soft-paste porcelain
nounDefinition of soft-paste porcelain
: a translucent ceramic ware fired at a low temperature that was produced in Europe during the 16th through 18th centuries in imitation of hard-paste porcelain
also
: an article of soft-paste porcelain
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