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Revision as of 22:04, 16 January 2023
English
Etymology
Ming dynasty porcelains (sense 4).
Dresden porcelains (sense 4).
From Middle French porcelaine (“cowrie, wampum; china, chinaware”), from Old Italian porcellana (“cowrie; china, chinaware”), from porcella (“mussel or cockle shell used to hold pigments while painting”) from porco (“pig”) with -ella (suffix forming diminutives).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: por‧ce‧lain, porc‧lain
Noun
porcelain (countable and uncountable, plural porcelains)
- (usually uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as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.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 136:
- Any power rail needs to be well insulated from earth, to minimise current leakage, and so the two power rails on the Underground sit on curiously genteel and antique-looking porcelain pots.
- (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.
- 1599, Richard Hakluyt translating E. de Sande in The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 2nd ed., Vol. II, p. 91:
- [...] that earthen or pliable matter commonly called porcellan, which is pure white,... wherof vessels of all kinds are very curiously framed...
- 1599, Richard Hakluyt translating E. de Sande in The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 2nd ed., Vol. II, p. 91:
- (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 historical) 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.
- 1855, The Poultry Chronicle, No. 3, p. 9:
- Those pretty spangled Toys [...] known by various names, as Porcelains, Hyacinths, Ermines, &c.
- 1855, The Poultry Chronicle, No. 3, p. 9:
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- bow down before the porcelain god
- drive the porcelain bus
- ivory porcelain
- porcelain aorta
- porcelain blue
- porcelain cement
- porcelain clay
- porcelain color
- porcelain crab
- porcelain earth
- porcelain god
- porcelain goddess
- porcelain grain
- porcelainist
- porcelainite
- porcelain jasper
- porcelain kiln
- porcelain lace
- porcelain-maker
- porcelain-making
- porcelain oven
- porcelain paper
- porcelain printing
- porcelain shell
- porcelain spar
- porcelain-tinted
- porcelain tooth
- porcelain ware
- porcelain-white
- porcelaneous
- pray to the porcelain god
- worship the porcelain god
- worship the porcelain goddess
Translations
hard white translucent ceramic
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items (esp. dishware or objets d'art) made of porcelain
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References
- “porcelain, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. - “porcelain”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter, Vol. 11, Number 1.
Further reading
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