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porcelain goddess

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see porcelain,‎ goddess.
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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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