| 单词 | porcelain earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporcelain earth porcelain earth n. porcelain clay, kaolin. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery > types of > supposed porcelain1599 porcelain earth1600 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 209 They haue such abundance of porcellan earth. 1767 W. Harte Macarius in Amaranth 217 True Fame, like porc'lain earth, for years must lay Bury'd, and mix'd with elemental clay. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 155 It comes to us as refined as the porcelain earth which subsides to the bottom of the ocean. 1922 Burlington Mag. Sept. 151/1 In the local porcelain earth the Ting Chou potter had at hand the material which answered all his requirements. 1985 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Mar. Ireland has had a long ceramic history, primarily because of the island's abundance of porcelain earth and potter's clay. < as lemmas |
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