porcelain : Idioms & Phrases

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Ivory porcelain

  • porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
Webster 1913

Porcelain clay

  • noun a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
    china stone; china clay; kaoline; kaolin; terra alba.
WordNet
  • . See under Clay.
Webster 1913

Porcelain crab

  • (Zoöl.), any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace.
Webster 1913

Porcelain jasper

  • . (Min.) See Porcelanite.
Webster 1913

Porcelain printing

  • the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.
Webster 1913

Porcelain shell

  • (Zoöl.), a cowry.
Webster 1913