p 3 o 1 r 1 c 3 e 1 l 1 a 1 i 1 n 1
9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
originFrom Middle French porcelaine (“cowrie, wampum; china, chinaware”), from Old Italian porcellana (“cowrie; china, chinaware”), from porcella (“female piglet”) + -ana. The material was so called because of its resemblance to the shell of the cowrie. Why the cowrie was named with a word meaning “piglet” is unclear.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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