pipeclay
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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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
A soldier must learn this; for many other things are necessary: pipeclay, powder, blacking, oil, emery, and soap, and a hundred other things.'
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
Majorca lay below, glistening amidst its hillocks of pipeclay.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
The baulk line and the D are marked either with chalk, tailors’ pipeclay, or an ordinary lead pencil; no other marks appear on the table.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
It was gathered in the ranges, on the flats, in the water-courses, and especially in the small veins of blue clay, lying almost above the so-called "pipeclay."
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
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