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
No one could with decorum aspire to share the sublimities which it annexed to character, except those made of the "porcelain clay of the earth," dukes, princes, kings, and kaisars.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George
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
As Father Dryden would say, 'this is the porcelain clay of humankind.'
From What Answer? by Dickinson, Anna E.
Ka-o-lin is the name given by the Chinese to their porcelain clay, and pe-tun-tse to the other ingredient in their China ware.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
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