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porcelain goddess (plural porcelain goddesses)
- (figurative) metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.
2012, Julie Lessman, A Love Surrendered:It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see porcelain, goddess.
1826, Robert Morrison, A Parting Memorial:In China, there is not a street, nor a shop, nor a palace, nor a hovel, nor a college, nor a poor fisherman's boat, that has not an idol; a carved image of wood, or a porcelain goddess, or a molten divinity of clay, or a literary god of bronze [...]
- (idiomatic, humorous, chiefly in the singular) A toilet bowl.
- Synonym: porcelain god