English-Swedish translations for porcelain

• porslin ett
  Mycket pompa och strålkastarljus, mycket silver och fint porslin, framstående gäster, den ena viktiga förpliktelsen efter den andra, och nu till och med ett möte med 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.

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• A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of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