china clay en · NOUN
Etymology
From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of kaolin.
Particularly engaging management's attention is the expanding market for china clay, which is mined in a sector of the Cornwall peninsula between St Austell in the south and Newquay in the north.
1964 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The Traffic Divisions of British Railways–2: Plymouth—test-bed for road-rail co-ordination: Part Two”, in Modern Railways, page 29:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| china clays | Number=Plur | lexicographic |