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porcelains
noun(por-ce-lain)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
porcelains
noun(por-ce-lain)soft-paste porcelain
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noun(por-ce-lain)porcelain
porcelains
noun(por-ce-lain)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