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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bone china
noun
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▪ A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china.
▪ Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
▪ Interest is building up in Waterford Wedgwood, makers of the famous crystal glassware and bone china.
▪ Royal Tuscan will continue to produce a wide variety of fine bone china ware.
▪ The subjects of many of her pictures have been transferred to Limoges dinnerware and transformed into limited-edition bone china figurines.
▪ There are vases of tulips and bowls of fruit, a bone china tea set and a stack of decorated hatboxes.
▪ This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.
▪ We've got to treat you like best bone china.
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bone china

n. an English form of porcelain made from clay mixed with bone ash

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bone china

n. fine porcelain that contains bone ash

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Bone china

Bone china is a type of soft-paste porcelain that is composed of bone ash, feldspathic material, and kaolin. It has been defined as ware with a translucent body containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from animal bone and calculated calcium phosphate. Developed by English potter Josiah Spode, bone china is known for its high levels of whiteness and translucency, and very high mechanical strength and chip resistance. Its high strength allows it to be produced in thinner cross-sections than other types of porcelain. Like stoneware it is vitrified, but is translucent due to differing mineral properties.

From its initial development and up to the later part of the twentieth century, bone china was almost exclusively an English product, with production being effectively localised in Stoke-on-Trent. Most major English firms made or still make it, including Fortnum & Mason, Mintons, Coalport, Spode, Royal Crown Derby, Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Worcester.

In the UK, references to "china" or "porcelain" can refer to bone china, and "English porcelain" has been used as a term for it, both in the UK and around the world.

Usage examples of "bone china".

He comes back, eats a soft-boiled egg from a bone china egg cup, turns green, leans back in his chair, and closes his eyes for about ten minutes.

Tea was served on a polished tray of filigreed European silver, in cups of bone china, poured from a tall acid-etched silver pot with curling feet.

Hackworth stood enveloped in that light, sipping beige tea from a cup of translucent bone china, her face let down its guard and betrayed some evidence of her true state of mind.

Anna Blakely walked into the room carrying a lacquered tea tray that held a bone china teapot and two elegant, handleless cups.

Hackworth stood envelopedthat light, sipping beige tea from a cup of translucent bone china,face let down its guard and betrayed some evidence of her trueof mind.

So, in the end, after making sure the senior officers knew he expected them to check on the troop mess regularly and personally, General Harris continued to eat off bone china and a linen tablecloth.

He looked around the hollow square of tables, snowy linen, the glitter of crystal and silverware and bone china.

There was gold-rimmed bone china, crystal glasses, and heavy sterling.

A drawing room with a large cabinet, shrouded in velvet, that held a tea service in bone china painted with assorted species of heather.

Cox didn't make the best coffee on the route, but the cup was definitely the finest in the valley: thin bone china, much too good for a half-hippie mailman.

Cox didn't make the best coffee on the route, but the cup was definitely the finest in the valley: thin bone china, much too good for a halfhippie mailman.

Now he sat at the fine table and drank coffee from bone china Another reason to stay out of cities.