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stone china

noun

  1. hard earthenware containing china stone.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stone china1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

On opposite sidewalks they stood, sweating like brown stone china ice pitchers, wide mouthed as two bull-alligators.

In early nineteenth-century days a class of ware, such as that of Mason, is stamped "ironstone china" or "stone china."

His stone china is well potted and carefully painted, and in design he was not loth to follow Mason of whom we shall speak later.

A dessert service of which this forms portion, is a very desirable acquisition, and represents stone china at its high-water mark.

And now she was staring at him, her face almost as white as the stone-china cups and saucers on the table.

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