metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.
It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.
toilet
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see porcelain, goddess.
In China, there is not a street, nor a shop, nor a palace, nor a hovel, nor a college, nor a poor fisherman's boat, that has not an idol; a carved image of wood, or a porcelain goddess, or a molten divinity of clay, or a literary god of bronze [ …]
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