stone china

noun

1. hard earthenware containing china stone.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stone china¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

On opposite sidewalks they stood, sweating like brown stone china ice pitchers, wide mouthed as two bull-alligators.

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In early nineteenth-century days a class of ware, such as that of Mason, is stamped "ironstone china" or "stone china."

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His stone china is well potted and carefully painted, and in design he was not loth to follow Mason of whom we shall speak later.

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A dessert service of which this forms portion, is a very desirable acquisition, and represents stone china at its high-water mark.

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And now she was staring at him, her face almost as white as the stone-china cups and saucers on the table.

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