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china

noun as in dishes, often valuable

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The site produces high-end and bespoke designs, including handcrafted fine bone china pieces and Jasperware, a type of pottery developed in the 18th Century by founder Josiah Wedgwood.

From BBC

Most of these fall in the same trope of emphasizing those with OI as fragile china dolls, even if they don’t have the short stature and other physical attributes commonly associated with OI.

From Salon

Well, that night, I heard a knock at my door, and there was Kathy Bates’ niece, delivering the gift of the china pig.

From Salon

The Viennese fondness for him may well be that, in his exuberance, he lets them live it up, even when that might mean chipping the china a little in his lust for splashy spectacle.

Worse, you may only think of it as mere decoration, just something tan or brown to fill the elongated, boat shaped serving pieces of your fall and winter holiday china.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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