porcelain clay
Britishnoun
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A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
As Father Dryden would say, 'this is the porcelain clay of humankind.'
From What Answer? by Dickinson, Anna E.
Decomposing fine-grained rock; composed of flesh-coloured feldspar, white quartz, and porcelain clay.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil
Real china ones are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
The minerals worked include copper, quicksilver, manganese, cobalt, porcelain clay, alabaster, graphite.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
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