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Gāolǐng
Chinese · ancient
"'high ridge', a place name and source of porcelain clay"
the name of a hill in Jiangxi province where fine white clay was mined for porcelain
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kaolin
French · 1712
"fine white clay used to make porcelain"
transliterated by a Jesuit missionary reporting on Chinese porcelain manufacture
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kaolin
English · 1727
"a fine white clay used in porcelain and other products"
borrowed from the French account into English mineralogy
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