English-Portuguese translations for porcelain

• porcelana
  Porém, infelizmente, o vosso relator geral é oriundo da mesma cidade que as porcelanas de Meissen. Unfortunately, with this particular general rapporteur you have someone who hails from the Meissen porcelain area.
  Permitam-me advertir insistentemente contra a ideia de que deveríamos agora ainda pôr a salvo rapidamente as nossas baixelas e a nossa porcelana valiosa, antes que venham as crianças sujas do Leste.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.

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• A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of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