493: porcelain Apr 14, 2016

'Porcelain' comes from the Italian word,'porcellana' meaning, ‘cowrie shell,’ because it is smooth. 'Porcellana' however comes from 'porcella' which means 'young sow', because people thought that cowrie shells resembled pig-vulva.

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