English-Dutch translations for porcelain

• porselein
  Maar helaas hebt u hier te maken met een rapporteur die afkomstig is uit de streek waar het Meißener porselein vandaan komt. Unfortunately, with this particular general rapporteur you have someone who hails from the Meissen porcelain area.
  Veel pronk en praal, veel zwaailichten, veel zilver en porselein, hoge gasten, de ene top na de andere, en nu zelfs een ontmoeting met George W. Bush. A great deal of pomp and flashing lights, a great deal of silver and porcelain, distinguished guests, one important engagement after another, and now even a meeting with George W. Bush.
• porseleinen

Definition of porcelain

• A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods
• : porcelain tableware
• : the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain
• An object made of porcelain, art objects or items of tableware
• : strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc
• A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers

Examples

• [[tableware
• Tableware]] and toilets are both made of porcelain
• He set the table with our porcelain and stemware
• The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains

Related words

• porcelaine
• ultraporcelain
• porcelain stoneware
• porcelain gallbladder
• porcelain bowl
• porcelain crab
• porcelain fungus
• pray to the porcelain god
• worship the porcelain god