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So... what the heck was petunse / pih-tun-tsze / pai-tun-tsze / petuntse / patootie?
Good china is made with kaolin, clay with an ample amount of kaolinite. Wiki's pretty clear that “kaolin” derives—via 18th-century French Jesuit mangling of gāolǐngtǔ (高嶺土)—from the village of Gaoling ...