porcelain
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramicType of ceramic wareKinds china, Spode
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Translations
Noun hard white translucent ceramic
- Spanish
- porcelana
- French
- porcelaine
- German
- Porzellan
- Italian
- porcellana
- Portuguese
- porcelana
- Turkish
- porselen
- Russian
- фарфо́р farfór
- Arabic
- خَزَف صِينِيّ ḵazaf ṣīniyy
- Chinese
- 瓷器 cíqì
- Japanese
- 磁器 jiki
24 more languages
- Dutch
- porselein
- Polish
- porcelana
- Swedish
- porslin
- Greek
- πορσελάνη porseláni
- Korean
- 도자기 dojagi
- Indonesian
- porselen
- Vietnamese
- sứ
- Hungarian
- porcelán
- Portuguese (PT)
- porcelana
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 瓷器 cíqì
- Catalan
- porcellana
- Czech
- porcelán
- Danish
- porcelæn
- Esperanto
- porcelano
- Finnish
- posliini
- Georgian
- ფაიფური paipuri
- Hebrew
- חַרְסִינָה kharsina
- Icelandic
- postulín
- Norwegian
- porselen
- Romanian
- porțelan
- Serbo-Croatian
- porcelan
- Slovak
- porcelán
- Slovenian
- porcelan
- Yiddish
- פּאָרצעלײַ portselay
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Botany Purslain. obsolete
Origin: F. porcelaine, It. porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell (Cypræa porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig, probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was believed to be made from it. See Pork.
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.
Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.— John Dryden
Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. — Porcelain clay. See under Clay. — Porcelain crab Zoology, any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. — Porcelain jasper. Mineralogy See Porcelanite. — Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. — Porcelain shell Zoology, a cowry.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54