Usually means: Hard, translucent ceramic, typically white.
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  1. porcelain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. porcelain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. porcelain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. porcelain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. porcelain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Porcelain, porcelain: Wordnik
  7. porcelain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. porcelain: Wiktionary
  9. porcelain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. porcelain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. porcelain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. porcelain: Dictionary.com
  13. porcelain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. porcelain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Porcelain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. porcelain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. porcelain: Rhymezone
  19. porcelain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. porcelain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. porcelain: Free Dictionary
  22. porcelain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. porcelain: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. porcelain: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. porcelain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. porcelain: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Porcelain: Eastern Tea
  2. porcelain: Idioms
  3. porcelain: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Porcelain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/p.html">Porcelain: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  3. Porcelain: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (usually uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
noun:  (usually uncountable) Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of kaolin: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.
noun:  (countable, now usually in the plural) An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.
noun:  (countable, rare) Synonym of cowrie.
noun:  (countable, obsolete or historical) Synonym of wampum: strings of shells, beads, etc. used as ornamentation or currency; the composite shells, beads, etc.
noun:  (countable, often capitalized) A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with a porcelain enamel.

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