soft paste

noun

any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.

French pâte tendre.

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How to use soft paste in a sentence

And it's a Lowestoft, too, the real thing—the genuine, true soft paste!
Miss Billy's Decision | Eleanor H. Porter
A manufactory of soft paste porcelain was founded at Bristol about 1750.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William Chaffers
The porcelain was of soft paste, and in 1902 fragments of it and moulds were found on the site of the factory.
The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods | William Chaffers
Moisten it with milk to a soft paste and half fill patty pans with the mixture.
Stevenson Memorial Cook Book | Various
After 1810 soft paste was used, and the mark then was New Hall, in a circle.
Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 | Charles Wyllys Elliott

British Dictionary definitions for soft paste

soft paste

noun

- artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash, etc
- (as modifier): softpaste porcelain

Origin of soft paste

C19: from paste 1 (in the sense: the mixture from which porcelain is made); so called because of its consistency

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