English-French translations for porcelain

• porcelaine
  Du faste et des flashes qui crépitent, de l’argent et de la porcelaine partout, des invités de marque, des engagements importants qui se succèdent, et même une rencontre avec 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.
  Permettez-moi de vous mettre en garde contre l'idée qu'il faudrait rapidement sauver notre argenterie et nos porcelaines avant l'arrivée du vilain petit canard de l'Est. Let me deliver a forceful warning against the conception that we even now have to put our silverware and valuable porcelain in a place of safety, before the grubby kids arrive from the East.
• faïence

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• A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of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