English-Portuguese translations for porcelain
- porcelanaPorém, 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- A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of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
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- : 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
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