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porcelain goddesses

porcelain goddesses is the plural of porcelain goddess.

Meaning of porcelain goddess

Noun

porcelain goddess (plural porcelain goddesses)

  1. (figuratively) metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.
    • It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.2012, Julie Lessman, A Love Surrendered
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see porcelain, goddess.
    • In China, there is not a street, nor a shop, nor a palace, nor a hovel, nor a college, nor a poor fisherman's boat, that has not an idol; a carved image of wood, or a porcelain goddess, or a molten divinity of clay, or a literary god of bronze [...]1826, Robert Morrison, A Parting Memorial
  3. (humorous, idiomatic, singular) A toilet bowl.
    Synonyms:
    porcelain god

Questions about porcelain goddesses

What is porcelain goddesses the plural of?
Porcelain goddesses is the plural of porcelain goddess.

Words near porcelain goddesses in the dictionary

  1. porcelain crabs
  2. porcelain doll
  3. porcelain dolls
  4. porcelain god
  5. porcelain goddess
  6. porcelain goddesses
  7. porcelain gods
  8. porcelain shell
  9. porcelain shells
  10. porcelain skin
  11. porcelain skins

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