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Etymology

From French porcelaine 'cowrie, chinaware', from Italian porcellana 'cowrie, chinaware', from porcella, the mussel and cockle shells which painters put their pigments in, literally 'female piglet'.

Noun

Wikipedia has an article on: Porcelain

Wikipedia porcelain (countable and uncountable; plural porcelains)

  1. a hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.
  2. anything manufactured from this material.

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