Meanings
- uncountableA material that resembles, and serves as a substitute for, china.
Hard plastic sets of pseudochina come in lovely patterns, and although unbreakable, feel much like real china.
1975, Emily Post, Elizabeth L. Post, The New Emily Post's Etiquette, page 3561 more example
More important, pure white Pyroceram resembled one of the household's most treasured materials: fine porcelain. Waterman advocated molding this miraculous stuff into cookware and promoting the pseudochina with all the fanfare that a top-notch advertising agency offered.
2020, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers
Origin
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pseudochina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudochina
“pseudochina.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudochina. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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