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bone china

noun

  1. a fine, naturally white china made with bone ash.


bone china

noun

  1. porcelain containing bone ash
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bone china1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

But next to me at the head of the yardstick was a miniature chair of English bone china, white with hand-painted rosebuds.

And speaking of bone, the English refined traditional porcelain by using crushed bone or bone ash in the clay mix for a whiter, brighter finish that we know as “bone china.”

The fine bone china has been made in Stoke-on-Trent by the Royal Collection Trust.

From BBC

Last year, Wedgwood debuted a fine bone china collection based on Bridges’s toile.

Served on delicate bone china, the slices of cake towered precariously high.

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