soft paste
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
3
: a fine-grained opaque Chinese ceramic ware related to true porcelain but having part of the kaolin replaced by pegmatite and usually being fired twice
4
: a lightweight soft opaque clay body (as of early Staffordshire)
Word History
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined at sense 2
- bottle/bleached/peroxide blonde
- bottlebird
- bottlebrush
- bottlebrush buckeye
- bottlebrush squirreltail
- bottlebrushes
- bottlecaps
- bottled
- bottled (up)
- bottled gas
- bottled in bond
- bottled out
- bottled up
- bottlefed
- bottlefeedded
- bottlefeedding
- bottlefeeded
- bottlefeedes
- bottlefeeding
- bottlefeeds
- bottleful
- bottlefuls
- bottlegrasses
- bottlehead
- bottleheads