| 单词 | bisque porcelain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbisque porcelain 2. 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 bisque porcelain). Cf. sense B. 1.Cf. earlier biscuit n. 4. 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 1782 J. Flaxman Let. 8 July in S. Smiles J. Wedgwood (1894) xvii. 209 I must beg, as soon as you have set a price on the ostrich's egg teapot in the fine white bisqué, that you will let me have one. 1787 J. Wedgwood Catal. (ed. 6) 2 Basaltes: a fine black porcelain bisqué, of nearly the same properties with the natural stone... Jasper: a white porcelain bisqué, of exquisite beauty and delicacy... Bamboo, or cane-coloured bisqué porcelain... A porcelain bisqué of extreme hardness, little inferior to that of agate. 1840 Repertory Patent Inventions 13 318 The first fire to which the green ware is exposed, should not be so strong as to cause any sensible contraction of the green ware, but be merely sufficient to harden it into a kind of bisque. 1864 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. He had..seen vast numbers of statuettes in plaster of Paris and in bisque. 1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Jan. 28/2 To glaze porcelain, the clay is fired at a low temperature to produce a bisque. 2003 Pop. Ceramics May 21/1 Allow some areas of the bisque to show through. Clean the tile and the sponge between colors. < as lemmas |
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