porcelain
A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials
Example
“Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.”
Other meanings
porcelain tableware.
An object made of porcelain, art objects or items of tableware.
“The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.”
A kind of
- ceramic ware
Related words
- porcelainberry
- porcelainize
- porcelainlike
- porcelainware
- protoporcelain
- semiporcelain
- Chantilly porcelain
- point Percy at the porcelain
- porcelain bus
- porcelain doll
- porcelain skin
- tender porcelain
Word history
From Middle French "porcelaine" (cowrie, wampum; china, chinaware).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “porcelain” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.