"porcelaine" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [French]

IPA: /pɔʁ.sə.lɛn/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-porcelaine.wav Forms: porcelaines [plural]
Etymology: From Old French (1298 AD) pourcelaine (“cowrie, cockle, or similar univalve seashell; the polished material of these shells”). By metaphorical extension, also fine china, which had a similar appearance. From Italian (13th century, in Marco Polo) porcellana (“cowrie; china; vagina”). From porcella (“the mussel and cockle shells which painters put their pigments in”, literally “female piglet”), the diminutive of porca (“sow”), from porco (“pig”), from Latin porcus (“pig”). Etymology templates: {{uder|fr|fro|-}} Old French, {{uder|fr|it|-}} Italian, {{uder|fr|la|porcus||pig}} Latin porcus (“pig”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} porcelaine f (plural porcelaines)
  1. cowrie, a mollusk of the family Cypraeidae, or its translucent shell Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-porcelaine-fr-noun-5vA4RB7u
  2. porcelain, the translucent ceramic of fine china, or vessels made of this material Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-porcelaine-fr-noun-SbZ-T4zF Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French undefined derivations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of French undefined derivations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine, porcelaine carnéole, porcelaine cervine, porcelaine de Madagascar, porcelaine tigre

Inflected forms

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    },
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "porcelaine cervine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "porcelaine de Madagascar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "porcelaine tigre"
    }
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          "expansion": "→ English: porcelain",
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          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: پورسلن (porselen), پورسلان (porselan, porslan)\nTurkish: porselen",
          "name": "desctree"
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    },
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          "expansion": "→ Swedish: porslin",
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      "text": "→ Swedish: porslin"
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    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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    },
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      "word": "porcelaine carnéole"
    },
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      "word": "porcelaine cervine"
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      "word": "porcelaine de Madagascar"
    },
    {
      "word": "porcelaine tigre"
    }
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