petunse.
Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
Meaning & usage
Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
Where this word comes from
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.
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