stone china
noun
hard earthenware containing china stone.
Origin of stone china
1First recorded in 1815–25
Words Nearby stone china
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How to use stone china in a sentence
On opposite sidewalks they stood, sweating like brown stone china ice pitchers, wide mouthed as two bull-alligators.
Back Home | Irvin S. CobbIn early nineteenth-century days a class of ware, such as that of Mason, is stamped "ironstone china" or "stone china."
Chats on Old Earthenware | Arthur HaydenHis stone china is well potted and carefully painted, and in design he was not loth to follow Mason of whom we shall speak later.
Chats on Old Earthenware | Arthur HaydenA dessert service of which this forms portion, is a very desirable acquisition, and represents stone china at its high-water mark.
Chats on Old Earthenware | Arthur HaydenAnd now she was staring at him, her face almost as white as the stone-china cups and saucers on the table.
The Woman-Haters | Joseph C. Lincoln
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