soft paste

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soft paste

also soft-paste (sôft′pāst′, sŏft′-)
n.
Any of various ceramics containing frit and refined clay.
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soft paste

n
(Ceramics)
a. artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash, etc
b. (as modifier): softpaste porcelain.
[C19: from paste1 (in the sense: the mixture from which porcelain is made); so called because of its consistency]
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Beat in the sieved icing sugar until you have a soft paste. Cool before swirling over the cakes and topping with a crushed honeycomb bar.
Mix desired quantity of rice powder with chilled raw milk to make a soft paste. Lightly rub all over body and rinse off immediately.
Their factory was built in what was then the village of Chelsea, and their early wares were gaily-coloured domestic soft paste porcelain to appeal to an elite market.
Among them were more pieces of the same blue and white pottery, which when tested, proved to be true soft paste porcelain.
She said four items, including eggs, sugar, and ghee, were mixed together into a soft paste of wheat flour in a suitable proportion and then kept in small bowls for baking on a stove for 15 to 20 minutes to take a shape of a delicious cake.
It is an odor-free, easy-to-apply, soft paste material that is subaqueous and clings to both wet and dry surfaces on concrete, ductile iron and plastic pipes.
The top price in the sale for an individual tea pot was PS1,215 for a Westpans soft paste example, decorated with flowers and dating from around 1765.
The top price in the sale for an individual teapot was PS1,215 for a Westpans soft paste example, dating from around 1765.
They sometimes resemble a soft paste that can be modeled like clay; at other times they resemble a granitelike material that can only be carved.
Using his own mix of soft paste on the hook he caught 100lb 4oz of carp to 13lb and that was far too good for Dinas Powys member Dean Jay in at number two with 62lb and Cardiff's Charlie Rawlings in third place with 54lb 6oz.
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