porcelainize

present singular third person porcelainizes · participle present porcelainizing · participle past porcelainized · past porcelainized · alternative porcelanize · alternative porcelainise

1. transitiveTo bake like porcelain.

   porcelainized clay shales

2. To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.

   Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!

   1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667

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   They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less .

   1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267

   When Patience discovers the plot to porcelainize the flesh of America's fee-males (obsessed, of course, with beauty only under the savage dominion of — ptui! —male lookism), they kill her!

   2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 49

3. To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.

   Porcelainize mended surfaces.

   1973, Laurence Adams Malone, How to Mend Your Treasures, page 121

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   In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks .

   1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26

   Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.

   1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93