† pâten.5
Ceramics. Obsolete. rare.
Clay from which porcelain is made.Now only in compounds: see pâte dure n., pâte-sur-pâte n., pâte tendre n.
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white claya1387
bottle clay1686
porcelain clay1690
blue clay1698
tasco1726
kaolin1728
capital1738
unaker1744
saggar1786
ball clay1811
Cornish clay1829
china-clay1840
Poole clay1875
bleaching-clay1881
pâte1890
virgin clay1891
1890 B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 283 There were two principal varieties of the ware: Ao-Kutani..and Kutani with painted and enamelled pâte varying from hard porcelain to pottery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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