hard paste

noun

1

: a ceramic body consisting of kaolin together with china stone or with feldspar and flint

2

or hard-paste porcelain : true high-fired porcelain made with a hard-paste body compare soft paste

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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