stone-paste
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Akin to European soft-paste porcelain, this material, known as fritware or stone-paste, is described in the fourtheenth-century treatise of Ahu'l Qasim as consisting of ten parts ground quartz, one part ground glass and one part fine white clay."
- "Mason and Tite propse that Islamic stone-paste material may have been developed by migrant Iraqi potters in Egypt in the +10ᵗʰ to +11ᵗʰ centuries, after some initial experiments with adding powdered glass to clay bodies in Iraq in the +9th century."
- "Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay."