| 单词 | porcelain |
| 释义 | porcelain (once / 1523 pages) n Your mom's favorite white china plates are probably made out of porcelain. Porcelain is a nearly translucent ceramic material used to make plates, bowls, and cups. The dishes at a fancy restaurant are often porcelain, a fine, delicate kind of china. Sometimes knickknacks, dolls, and art objects are also made from porcelain. The word comes from the Italian word for "cowrie shell," porcellana, which compares the shiny look of porcelain to the polished inside of a shell. Porcelain has a tricky spelling — although it ends with ain, it rhymes with ten, not rain. WORD FAMILYporcelain: porcelainize, porcelains+/porcelainize: porcelainized USAGE EXAMPLESWith silk curtains and porcelain vases, Hitler’s designers suggested an internal world that was both cultivated and peaceful. Salon(Dec 23, 2016) Objects in Gouthière’s time were first modeled in wood, wax or porcelain, pressed between blocks of compressed sand and removed. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) They are full of wood, terra-cotta and porcelain figurines depicting not just the Holy Family but also the trades and fashions of the time. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) n ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic Hypo|Hyper china high quality porcelain originally made only in China Spodea brand of fine English porcelain bone chinafine porcelain that contains bone ash crackle, crackle china, cracklewareglazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface ceramic ware utensils made from ceramic material |
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