petunse

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noun

Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.

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porcelain stonepottery stone
OriginFrench petunse ← Chinese 白墩子 →
First used 1727Scrabble 9
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Meanings

nounpetunse (countable and uncountable, plural petunses)

plural petunses · alternative petuntse · alternative petuntze

  1. countableuncountableRock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.First known use 1727

    Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […].

    1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86

    Synonyms: porcelain stone, pottery stone

Synonyms & antonyms

nounRock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.

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porcelain stonepottery stone

Origin

  1. Chinese白墩子“white lump”
  2. Frenchpetunse
  3. Englishpetunse

From French petunse, pe-tun-tse, from F.X. d'Entrecolles's 1712 irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 白墩子 (“white lump”), formerly used to describe the bricks transported from Qimen, Anhui, to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

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