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pipe clay
1noun
- a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
pipe-clay
2[ pahyp-kley ]
verb (used with object)
- to whiten with pipe clay.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pipe clay1
First recorded in 1750–60
Origin of pipe clay2
First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences
Fine greyish-white pipe-clay; of which about thirty feet in thickness were visible, apparently above the sandstone last mentioned.
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In colored ones, if yellow, use gamboge after the pipe-clay, and for other colors match it in dry paint.
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The four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.
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Use equal parts of boiled oil, white lead, pipe clay and black oxide of manganese, and form it into a paste.
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I have used a white pipe-clay dug up in the laboratory garden with complete success.
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