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any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients. French, pâte tendre. Cf. hard paste.
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soft-paste — softˈ paste adjective (of porcelain) made of a paste of various kinds requiring less heat in firing than china clay • • • Main Entry: ↑soft * * * adj. denoting artificial porcelain, typically made with white clay and ground glass and fired at a… … Useful english dictionary
soft paste — I. noun 1. : a ceramic body containing refined clay and a glassy frit 2. or soft paste porcelain : a soft low fired translucent ware with a soft paste body produced in Europe from the 15th through the 18th century compare hard paste II. noun … Useful english dictionary
Soft-paste porcelain — url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/38638 popup.html title= Porcelain plate work=Ceramics accessdate= 2007 12 06] Victoria and Albert Museum, London] Soft paste porcelain is a type of a ceramic material, but it lacks a more specific,… … Wikipedia
soft-paste porcelain — noun see soft paste I, 2 * * * soft paste porcelain «SFT PAYST, SOFT », a creamy white, translucent porcelain made from a white firing clay combined with a fusible silicate or mass of glass, sand, broken china, or the like … Useful english dictionary
soft-paste porcelain — noun Date: 1854 a translucent ceramic ware fired at a low temperature that was produced in Europe during the 16th through 18th centuries in imitation of hard paste porcelain; also an article of soft paste porcelain … New Collegiate Dictionary
soft-paste — adjective denoting artificial porcelain, typically containing ground glass and fired at a comparatively low temperature … English new terms dictionary
soft — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. 2 (of cloth etc.) having a smooth surface or texture; not rough or coarse. 3 (of air etc.) mellow, mild, balmy; not… … Useful english dictionary
soft porcelain — noun : a porcelain made of soft paste … Useful english dictionary
paste — [pāst] n. [ME past < OFr paste < LL pasta < Gr pastē, mess of barley porridge < passein, to sprinkle] 1. a) dough used in making rich pastry b) PASTA 2. any of various soft, moist, smooth textured substances [toothpaste] … English World dictionary
Paste — Paste, n. [OF. paste, F. p[^a]te, L. pasta, fr. Gr. ? barley broth; cf. ? barley porridge, ? sprinkled with salt, ? to sprinkle. Cf. {Pasty}, n., {Patty}.] 1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
