china clay

See also: China clay

English

Etymology

From its chief original use in Jingdezhen, China.

Noun

china clay (countable and uncountable, plural china clays)

1. 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.