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Etymology
From French petunse, pe-tun-tse, &c., from F.X. d'Entrecolles's 1712 irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 白墩子 (“white lump”), formerly used to describe the bricks transported from Qimen, Anhui, to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.
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petunse (countable and uncountable, plural petunses)
- Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86:Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […] .
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