Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of removing polish or glaze; specifically, in ceramics, a process whereby the glaze on ware is removed. Ware with the resulting dull surface is called
ivory porcelain . It corresponds to the deglazing of glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
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- verb Present participle of
depolish .
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Examples
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We can, however, go far beyond the mere depolishing of glass; indeed I have already said that quartz-sand can wear a hole through corundum.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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