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Porcelain goddess

//ˈpɔːsəlɪn ˈɡɒdɛs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion. figuratively

    "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."

  2. 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 [...]"

  3. 3
    A toilet bowl. humorous, idiomatic, singular

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