porcelain goddess

plural porcelain goddesses

1. figurativelymetaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.

   It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.

   2012, Julie Lessman, A Love Surrendered

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see porcelain, goddess.

   In China, there is not a street, nor a shop, nor a palace, nor a hovel, nor a college, nor a poor fisherman's boat, that has not an idol; a carved image of wood, or a porcelain goddess, or a molten divinity of clay, or a literary god of bronze [...]

   1826, Robert Morrison, A Parting Memorial

3. humorousidiomaticsingularA toilet bowl.

   Synonyms: porcelain god