单词 | biscuit porcelain |
释义 | > as lemmasbiscuit porcelain 4. Ceramics. Pottery that has undergone a single firing to harden the clay permanently, esp. before it is glazed and fired for a second time; a piece of such pottery. Also: spec. a type of unglazed, matt, typically white porcelain used for statuettes, vases, etc. (more fully biscuit porcelain or biscuit china); a piece of this. Cf. earlier Compounds 2a.Cf. bisque n.3 2, and see also biscuitware n. at Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > unglazed terra-cotta1722 biscuit1768 biscuitware1773 bisque1782 redware1832 terre cuite1869 1768 J. Watt Let. 7 Apr. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 12 The trouble of putting the glazing on a hard-burnt close body would raise the price too high: but this can be sucked in upon a bisket. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iii. 92 A person who manufactures toys of earthenware.., painted in oil colours, upon the bisquet which far surpass any thing of the kind he ever saw in this district. 1871 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 716/1 A slender rod of metal.., terminated at one end by a small knob of white, unglazed, biscuit china. 1902 W. Burton Hist. & Descr. Eng. Porcelain xx. 142 In the delicately modelled flower pieces in biscuit porcelain..the artificial petals are almost as delicate as the real ones they imitate. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son (1926) viii. 73 The china was to be of a plain white biscuit with a dark blue and gold border. 2017 K. Millward Surface Decoration x. 94 The biscuit has to be fired again to about 805°C (1481°F). < as lemmas |
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