china clay
See also: China clay
English
editEtymology
editFrom its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.
Noun
editchina clay (countable and uncountable, plural china clays)
- Synonym of kaolin.
- 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:
- 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.