porcelain
Example Sentences
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Once they made up their mind to purchase some porcelain, they could often be drawn into buying a teak chair or some other expensive piece of furniture.
From Literature
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Not the silken, restaurant version piped into porcelain.
From Salon
Maggie had brown hair, dark eyes, skin like a porcelain doll.
From Literature
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“I see midnight blue, persian blue, cornflower, powder, and sapphire. And whites? There’s porcelain, daisy, and pearl.”
From Literature
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Everything is installed on earthquake hangers, “so we aren’t showered in a downpour of porcelain.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.