porcelain
/ˈpɔɹs(ə)lɪn/ verb C2- To coat with a porcelain enamel.
He/she/it porcelains · Past porcelained · Past participle porcelained · -ing form porcelaining
Verb forms
- Base form
- porcelain
- He/she/it
- porcelains
- Past
- porcelained
- Past participle
- porcelained
- -ing form
- porcelaining
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Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce.
madame,” replied Monte Cristo, “you must not ask of us, the manufacturers of fine porcelain, such a question.
A large vase of Japan porcelain, filled with flowers that loaded the air with their perfume, stood in the salon.
There was not a blade of grass to be seen in the paths, or a weed in the flower-beds; no fine lady ever trained and watered her geraniums, her cacti, and her rhododendrons, in her porcelain jardinière with more pains than this hitherto unseen gardener bestowed upon his little enclosure.
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