pipeclay

British  

/ ˈpaɪpˌkleɪ /

noun

1. a fine white pure clay, used in the manufacture of tobacco pipes and pottery and for whitening leather and similar materials

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verb

1. (tr) to whiten with pipeclay

Example Sentences

The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wish we’d got something to do, if it was only to clean one’s buckles and lay on a bit of pipeclay.

From Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by Spurrier, Steven

Churchill had again to withstand attacks upon his Army uniform proposals, this time on the ground that the reversion to scarlet and pipeclay would entail extra labour and expense upon the private soldier.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various

We don’t feel the heat through the day, except when we are at the windlass drawing up the pipeclay, or while washing our ‘stuff,’ for we are generally below ground ‘driving.’

From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Each bag contained a knife, fork, spoon, tin canteen, shaving brush, soap, razor, boot brushes, clothes brush, hair brush, pipeclay, button polisher, cleaning paste, and a dozen other things just as interesting and as useful.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson