Porcelain



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 瓷, 瓷器
• ［类］ clay : porcelain / flax : linen ( 瓷器由黏土造成 / 亚麻布由亚麻造成) glaze: porcelain / varnish : wood ( 釉面保护瓷器 / 清漆保护木头)

Webster Collegiate

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 1530
• 1. 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
• 2. soft-paste porcelain
• ? porcelainlike adjective
• ? porcelaneous or porcellaneous adjective

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