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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A decorative white earthen ware of a dry, chalky appearance, quite thin and exceedingly brittle, made by Robert Wilson at Hanley, England, toward the end of the eighteenth century. The mark was the letter C beneath a crown.

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