Definitions
Fine ceramic material used for dishes and ornaments.
Word origin
From Middle French porcelaine (“cowrie, wampum; china, chinaware”), from Old Italian porcellana (“cowrie; china, chinaware”), from porcella (“female piglet”) + -ana. The material was so called because of its resemblance to the shell of the cowrie. Why the cowrie was named with a word meaning “piglet” is unclear.
Used in a sentence
“Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.”
“Any power rail needs to be well insulated from earth, to minimise current leakage, and so the two power rails on the Underground sit on curiously genteel and antique-looking porcelain pots.”
“iij. potts of Erthe payntid, callyd Porseland.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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