pipe clay
a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
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to whiten with pipe clay.
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How to use pipe clay in a sentence
Fine greyish-white pipe-clay; of which about thirty feet in thickness were visible, apparently above the sandstone last mentioned.
In colored ones, if yellow, use gamboge after the pipe-clay, and for other colors match it in dry paint.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyThe four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony TrollopeUse equal parts of boiled oil, white lead, pipe clay and black oxide of manganese, and form it into a paste.
Practical Mechanics for Boys | J. S. ZerbeI have used a white pipe-clay dug up in the laboratory garden with complete success.
On Laboratory Arts | Richard Threlfall
British Dictionary definitions for pipeclay
/ (ˈpaɪpˌkleɪ) /
a fine white pure clay, used in the manufacture of tobacco pipes and pottery and for whitening leather and similar materials
(tr) to whiten with pipeclay
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