soft paste

American  

noun

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

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soft paste British  

noun

1. 1. artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      softpaste porcelain

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Etymology

Origin of soft paste

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

Example Sentences

Pour in enough groundnut oil to make a soft paste.

From The Guardian

In place of the tallow a soft paste of good beeswax and castor oil is an excellent application, the two being heated in order to thoroughly mix them.

From Project Gutenberg

The setting of a woman in a dress by Cheruit; a part of the bravery of fragile soft paste Lowestoft china and square emeralds that would feed a starving village, on fingers that had done no more than wave a fan; the fan itself, on gold and ivory with tasselled silk—the things to which the longing of men, elevated a degree above hard circumstances, turned—were of equal weight with the whole; for it was not what the woman had in common with a rabbit that was important, but her difference.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus convey into the bladder a quantity of the gas, and then remove the cork to another flask, containing two or three ounces of black oxide of manganese, moistened with sulphuric acid, sufficient to form with it a soft paste; apply the heat of a lamp, and oxygen gas will be evolved, and will also rise through the neck of the flask; in this manner, convey into the bladder, nearly half as much oxygen gas, as it previously contained of hydrogen.

From Project Gutenberg

Pour off the water with the acid, and add to the silver an equal quantity of super-tartrate of potass, thus forming a soft paste;—dip a piece of soft leather in his paste, and rub it on the metal to be silvered; continue rubbing it till it is nearly dry; then wash it with water, and polish by rubbing it hard with a piece of dry leather.

From Project Gutenberg