bone china

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   fine porcelain that contains bone ash

   Broaderchina

Questions about bone china

What does bone china mean?

bone china means "fine porcelain that contains bone ash".

Is bone china a common word?

bone china is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.