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PORCELAIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORCELAIN , the name of that See also:

kind of ceramic See also:ware which is characterized by a translucent See also:body, also loosely used for the finer kinds of ware generally, popularly known as " See also:china " (see See also:CERAMICS). The See also:French porcelaine, from which the word comes into See also:English, is an See also:adaptation of the See also:Italian porcellana, a cowrie-See also:shell, the beautifully polished See also:surface of which caused the name to be applied to the ware. The Italian word is generally taken to be from porcella, diminutive of porco, See also:pig, from a sup-posed resemblance of the shell to a pig's back.

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