Meanings
china clay1
plural china clays
- countableuncountableSynonym of kaolin.
Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north.
1964 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The Traffic Divisions of British Railways–2: Plymouth—test-bed for road-rail co-ordination: Part Two”, in Modern Railways, page 29Synonyms: kaolin
China clay2
plural China clays
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of china clay.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of kaolin.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.
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