Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - porcelain
Porcelain
porcelain
n. 1 a hard vitrified translucent ceramic. 2 objects made of this. Phrases and idioms porcelain clay kaolin. porcelain-shell cowrie. Derivatives porcellaneous adj. porcellanous adj. Etymology: F porcelaine cowrie, porcelain f. It. porcellana f. porcella dimin. of porca sow (a cowrie being perh. likened to a sow's vulva) f. L porca fem. of porcus pig
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noun see: farrow Date: circa 1530 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, soft-paste ~, ~like adjective porcelaneous or porcellaneous adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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