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Noun: porcelain  por-su-lin
  1. A hard, fine-grained, translucent ceramic material made by firing kaolin and other materials at high temperatures
    "The fragile porcelain plates were displayed in a glass cabinet"

Derived forms: porcelains

Type of: ceramic ware

Encyclopedia: Porcelain