| 单词 | soft paste |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft paste soft paste n. and adj. [after French pâte tendre (1844 or earlier); compare tender porcelain n. at tender adj. 1c] (a) n. artificial porcelain, typically made with white clay and ground glass and fired at a comparatively low temperature; (b) adj. made from this kind of porcelain; designating porcelain of this kind. ΚΠ 1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 8 Chantilly Porcelain is a fine kind of ‘soft paste’. 1863 W. Chaffers Marks & Monograms Pottery & Porcelain 203 Menecy, marked in blue on a soft paste egg cup, of very early manufacture. 1911 A. Hayden Royal Copenhagen Porcelain i. 37 The early Copenhagen porcelain of the Fournier period is soft paste. 1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 78/2 Duck Egg Porcelain, a much sought after variety of Swansea soft-paste porcelain. 2013 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 33/1 Bone china is made from soft-paste, porcelain from hard. < as lemmas |
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