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petunse

petunse noun: rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.

Noun

petunse (countable and uncountable, plural petunses)

  1. Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
    • Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86
    Synonyms:
    porcelain stone, pottery stone

Synonyms of petunse

  • porcelain stone
  • pottery stone

Forms of petunse

pluralpetunses
alternative formpetuntse
alternative formpetuntze

Origin of petunse

From French petunse, pe-tun-tse, from F.X. d'Entrecolles's 1712 irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 白墩子 (“white lump”), formerly used to describe the bricks transported from Qimen, Anhui, to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

Questions about petunse

What does petunse mean?
Petunse means rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
What part of speech is petunse?
Petunse is a noun.
What is the plural of petunse?
The plural of petunse is petunses.

Words near petunse in the dictionary

  1. petunidin
  2. petunidins
  3. petuning
  4. petunioside
  5. Petuns
  6. petunse
  7. petunses
  8. petuntse
  9. petuntses
  10. petuntze
  11. petuntzes

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