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  • adjective Resembling porcelain or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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porcelain +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A hard, heavy, durable earthenware with a white porcelainlike appearance.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The terms imitation porcelain and everyday china traditionally referred to all porcelainlike imitators of true porcelain, including various types of ironstone and earthenware.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • A hard, heavy, durable earthenware with a white porcelainlike appearance.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The terms imitation porcelain and everyday china traditionally referred to all porcelainlike imitators of true porcelain, including various types of ironstone and earthenware.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The terms imitation porcelain and everyday china traditionally referred to all porcelainlike imitators of true porcelain, including various types of ironstone and earthenware.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • A hard, heavy, durable earthenware with a white porcelainlike appearance.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Food stalls and shops, the buildings made of the same porcelainlike material as the farmhouse, in gaudy primary colors.

    Spin 2005

  • The terms imitation porcelain and everyday china traditionally referred to all porcelainlike imitators of true porcelain, including various types of ironstone and earthenware.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • A hard, heavy, durable earthenware with a white porcelainlike appearance.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Serna and Florenda carried in more delicate plates than Anna had seen, almost porcelainlike white, with only a fringe of the blue Brill affected.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

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