porcelain

A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as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, eleg

Tableware and toilets are both made of porcelain.

Any power rail needs to be well insulated from earth, to minimise current leakage, and so the two power rails on the Underground sit on curiously genteel and antique-looking porcelain pots.

Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.

iij. potts of Erthe payntid, callyd Porseland.

He set the table with our porcelain and stemware.

Synonym of kaolin: the kind of clay traditionally used in China to manufacture porcelain.

[...] that earthen or pliable matter commonly called porcellan, which is pure white,... wherof vessels of all kinds are very curiously framed...

An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware.

The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.

Synonym of cowrie.

In the kingdomes of Caiacan and Carazan, certaine sea shels are currant, which some men terme Porcelline.

To coat with a porcelain enamel.