china
/ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/ sustantivo A2En español: porcelana, vajilla de porcelana
- 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.
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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.
Can I have those broken pieces of china that are out in the woodshed?
“I don’t just remember whether I stuck it on the pincushion or laid it in the china tray.
Barry had the very best china set out, Marilla, just as if I was real company.
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