soft porcelain

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• soft porcelain — noun : a porcelain made of soft paste …   Useful english dictionary

• Porcelain — Fine China redirects here. For the band, see Fine China (band). This article is about the ceramic material. For other uses, see Porcelain (disambiguation). Chinese moon flask, 1723 35, Qing Dynasty …   Wikipedia

• soft-paste — softˈ paste adjective (of porcelain) made of a paste of various kinds requiring less heat in firing than china clay • • • Main Entry: ↑soft * * * adj. denoting artificial porcelain, typically made with white clay and ground glass and fired at a… …   Useful english dictionary

• Soft-paste porcelain — url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/38638 popup.html title= Porcelain plate work=Ceramics accessdate= 2007 12 06] Victoria and Albert Museum, London] Soft paste porcelain is a type of a ceramic material, but it lacks a more specific,… …   Wikipedia

• porcelain — porcelaneous, porcellaneous /pawr seuh lay nee euhs, pohr /, adj. /pawr seuh lin, pohr ; pawrs lin, pohrs /, n. 1. a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high… …   Universalium

• soft-paste porcelain — noun see soft paste I, 2 * * * soft paste porcelain «SFT PAYST, SOFT », a creamy white, translucent porcelain made from a white firing clay combined with a fusible silicate or mass of glass, sand, broken china, or the like …   Useful english dictionary

• soft paste — I. noun 1. : a ceramic body containing refined clay and a glassy frit 2. or soft paste porcelain : a soft low fired translucent ware with a soft paste body produced in Europe from the 15th through the 18th century compare hard paste II. noun …   Useful english dictionary

• soft-paste porcelain — noun Date: 1854 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 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• porcelain — noun Etymology: Middle French porcelaine cowrie shell, porcelain, from Italian porcellana, from porcello vulva, literally, little pig, from Latin porcellus, diminutive of porcus pig, vulva; from the shape of the shell more at farrow Date: circa… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• soft — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. 2 (of cloth etc.) having a smooth surface or texture; not rough or coarse. 3 (of air etc.) mellow, mild, balmy; not… …   Useful english dictionary

• Porcelain clay — Clay Clay (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. {Clog}.] 1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English