soft paste

noun

any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
French pâte tendre.
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Example sentences from the Web for soft paste

  • Soft-paste herb cheese put up in a tube by German Brazilians near the Argentine border.

    The Complete Book of Cheese |Robert Carlton Brown

  • All these soft-paste Copenhagen examples are of great rarity.

    Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain |Arthur Hayden

  • Soft-paste or artificial French porcelain takes from eighty to a hundred hours for the first, and thirty for the second, firing.

    The Ceramic Art |Jennie J. Young

British Dictionary definitions for soft paste

soft paste

noun

  1. artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash, etc
  2. (as modifier)softpaste porcelain

Word Origin for soft paste

C19: from paste 1 (in the sense: the mixture from which porcelain is made); so called because of its consistency