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1. (n.) porcelain
a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, made of kaolin and feldspar, with a transparent glaze fired at a high temperature.
2. porcelain
ware made from this.
Etymology: (1520–30; < F porcelaine < It porcellana orig., a type of cowrie shell, appar. likened to the vulva of a sow, n. use of fem. of porcellano of a young sow =porcell(a), dim. of porca sow (see pork , -elle ) +-ano -an1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) porcelain
ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
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1. (noun) porcelain
purslain
2. (noun) porcelain
a fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware
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Sense: (of) a kind of fine china
That dish is made of porcelain; a porcelain figure.
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 Afrikaans: porselein |
 Arabic: خَزَف صيني |
 Bulgarian: порцелан |
 Brazilian: porcelana |
 Czech: porcelán(ový) |
 German: das Porzellan; Porzellan- |
 Danish: porcelæn; porcelæns- |
 Greek: πορσελάνη |
 Spanish: (nombre) porcelana; (adje |
 Estonian: portselan |
 Farsi: چینی پورسلین |
 Finnish: posliini |
 French: (en) porcelaine |
 Hebrew: חַרסִינָה |
 Hindi: चीनी मिट्टी के बरतन |
 Croatian: porculan |
 Hungarian: porcelán |
 Indonesian: porselen |
 Icelandic: postulín |
 Italian: porcellana; di porcellana |
 Japanese: 磁器 |
 Korean: 자기(의) |
 Lithuanian: porcelianas |
 Latvian: porcelāns |
 Malay: porselin |
 Dutch: porselein |
 Norwegian: porselen(s-) |
 Polish: porcelana, porcelanowy |
 Persian: چینی كلاى |
 Pashto: كلالى، چينى لوښى |
 Portuguese: porcelana |
 Romanian: (de) porţelan |
 Russian: фарфор |
 Slovak: porcelán; porcelánový |
 Slovenian: porcelan(ski) |
 Serbian: porcelan |
 Swedish: porslin |
 Thai: เครื่องเคลือบ |
 Turkish: porselen |
 Taiwanese: 瓷器 |
 Ukrainian: порцеляна, фарфор |
 Urdu: چيني کے برتن |
 Vietnamese: đồ sứ |
 Chinese: 瓷器 |
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