Petunse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery. countable, uncountable

    "Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […]."

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porcelain stonepottery stone

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"Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […]."

Etymology

From French petunse, pe-tun-tse, &c., 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.

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