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porcelainize en · VERB

Etymology

From porcelain + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To bake like porcelain.
   • porcelainized clay shales
2. To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.
   • Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool! 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667:
   • When Patience discovers the plot to porcelainize the flesh of America's fee-males (obsessed, of course, with beauty only under the savage dominion of — ptui! —male lookism), they kill her! 2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 49:
   • They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less . 1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267:
3. To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.
   • Porcelainize mended surfaces. 1973, Laurence Adams Malone, How to Mend Your Treasures, page 121:
   • Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs. 1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93:
   • In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks . 1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26:

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