china
/ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/ noun A2- Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china. · It's a china doll.
- Chinaware: porcelain tableware. · He set the table with china, cloth napkins, and crystal stemware.· The traditional 20th anniversary gift is china.
- Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
- Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
- Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
- A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
Plural chinas
From the library
Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father’s mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents.
Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china.
## Chapter XX The Dainty China Country
Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors.
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