" hard-paste porcelain "

[Noun]  | "hard-paste porcelain" | \ ˈhärd-ˌpāst- \

1: porcelain

Origin: circa 1931 ;

[Noun]  | "por*ce*lain" | \ ˈpȯr-s(ə-)lən \

1: a hard, fine-grained, sonorous, nonporous, and usually translucent and white ceramic ware that consists essentially of kaolin, quartz, and a feldspathic rock and is fired at a high temperature —called also hard-paste porcelain, true porcelain

2: soft-paste porcelain

Origin: circa 1530 ;

 Middle French porcelaine cowrie shell, porcelain, from Italian porcellana, from porcello vulva, literally, little pig, from Latin porcellus, diminutive of porcus pig, vulva; from the shape of the shell {mat|farrow|};

[Noun]  | "porcelain"