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

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pipeclay

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

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)

Their knapsacks were hairy, and their belts black, the latter suggesting deliverance from that absurdity of old, pipeclay.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The lower division consists of pale-yellow, current-bedded sand and loam, with layers of pipeclay and occasional beds of flint pebbles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

When mourning for the dead, the hair is plastered all over with mud, and the eyes and forehead are painted round with pipeclay.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward