pâte tendre

[ French paht tahn-druh ]

noun

1. soft paste.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pâte tendre¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1860–65

Example Sentences

The pâte tendre is also soft in another sense, being unable to bear so great a degree of heat in the furnace as hard porcelain.

From Project Gutenberg

Founded by M. Maximilien de Bettignies in 1815, for the manufacture of pâte tendre porcelain like the old Sèvres.

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The beautiful pâte tendre ware of Sèvres was always much esteemed, and never could have been produced at a reasonable price even at the time it was made, the expense of decoration as well as the risk in firing being so great.

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Soft paste, which has been discontinued for many years in every other fabrique in France, is still made at both places, and they consequently produce the closest imitations of old Sèvres pâte tendre.

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The violet pensée, a beautiful violet from a mixture of manganese, one of the rarest decorations of the pâte tendre.

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