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

For this purpose any good pipeclay may be employed.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

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)

In the blue of the evening I could not then discern that what I took to be houses were simply heaps of pipeclay.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

Long lines of white tents overtop the heaps of pipeclay, which grow higher from day to day.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel