porcelain goddess

English

Noun

porcelain goddess (plural porcelain goddesses)

  1. (idiomatic) metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.
    • 2012, Julie Lessman, A Love Surrendered
      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.
  2. (idiomatic, slang, chiefly singular) toilet
  3. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see porcelain,‎ goddess.
    • 1826, Robert Morrison, A Parting Memorial
      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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