artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash, etc
b.
(as modifier)
softpaste porcelain
Word origin
C19: from paste1 (in the sense: the mixture from which porcelain is made); so called because of itsconsistency
Examples of 'soft paste' in a sentence
soft paste
Nor has either of us ever declared the vases to be of soft-paste porcelain.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The question of priority of invention depends, to a large extent, on the definition of such terms as 'soft-paste', 'hard-paste' and, indeed, 'porcelain'.